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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:36:36
Message-Id: 200804292136.22617.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
2 > > This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me
3 > > off as useful important stuff just *goes away*
4 >
5 > I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have
6 > found out easily all the available profiles by doing "eselect profile
7 > list":
8 >
9 > # eselect profile list
10 > Available profile symlink targets:
11
12 Fair enough, except that I maintain make.profile manually using ln. Same
13 with /usr/src/linux. And I've been doing that since my first install
14 and have never needed to look for a front end tool that can replace one
15 simple command with one simple command.
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17 In fact, I didn't even know about this feature of eselect till 5 minutes
18 ago. So now there are two useful and important things that were not
19 communicated to users.
20
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22 Alan McKinnon
23 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008 John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>