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Tom Hendrikx wrote: |
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> Probably not, but if you have an idea about how Gentoo works, you should |
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> know that there is no significant advantage with such a profile. All |
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> available ebuilds will install their latest and greatest version. |
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> Upgrading a profile when it goes stable (f.i. from default-linux/x86/2006.1 |
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> to default-linux/x86/2007.0) will not trigger any major updates to your |
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> system, because the latest updates are already installed. |
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But installing a fresh release means you don't have to do 6 months worth |
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of updates with some revdep-rebuilds etc on along the way. |
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Regards, |
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Petteri |
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