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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:38:06
Message-Id: 4B92DB68.8030009@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles by Mike Frysinger
1 On 03/07/2010 12:31 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Friday 05 March 2010 20:22:44 Duncan wrote:
3 >> Ed W posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:33:43 +0000 as excerpted:
4 >>> I think I have mostly upgraded my machines, but I completely agree - I
5 >>> sometimes let some old virtual machines sit unbooted for a year and then
6 >>> suddenly want to use them and bring them up to date and occasionally
7 >>> this can be a right old pain in the derrier...
8 >>
9 >> Surely, if you've let it go for a year, it's about as easy to reinstall
10 >> from a new stage-3 as it is to try to update from where you are?
11 >
12 > tell that to my headless machines. shout at their butts.
13 > -mike
14
15 no real rush, we can postpone it, but 3 years sounds a bit too much imho
16 how about news item this year's November, and removal on next January?
17 approx
18
19 - Samuli

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