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On Sun, Oct 10, 2004 at 02:19:14AM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> The problem is that a 2.4 user would see 2.6 as a package update, even |
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> though they might really want to stick to 2.4. We could get around this by |
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> having say 2.4 as stable, 2.6 as ~arch, but that makes it not possible to |
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> release "testing" releases for kernels. |
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If you add >=sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6 to your package.mask file all |
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this is covered afaik. I don't think it's too difficult to have this set in |
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a cascading profile. |
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A note on selecting profiles during the installation is hardly an issue. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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