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On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Reading around on the net, it amazes me how many people are using developer |
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> profiles for their Gentoo because they think it's for software developers |
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> and don't see that it's for Gentoo developers and not intended for end |
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> users. They know the "Developer" installation profiles of other distros and |
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> think Gentoo's profiles are just the same (on those distros, selecting a dev |
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> profile just means it installs GCC + dev libs + IDEs by default.) |
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> Some kind of warning or other mechanism that does selecting this profile |
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> without knowing what you're doing would be a good idea. |
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I don't think the profiles are not intended for end users; if they are |
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only intended for developers |
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we could just exclude them from the rsync tree. |
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That being said I think it is fairly trivial to rename it to |
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'ebuild-developer'. Screw all these stupid warnings and |
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VARS_IN_ALL_CAPS> |
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Just name shit properly and I'm sure folks can probably figure it out. |
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I feel very badly for the 'developers' running with 'stricter' or |
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other insane portage features that basically make the distro unusable |
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;p |
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-Alec |
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