Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

[Donnie Berkholz]

Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Justin R Findlay schrieb:
>> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
>>> Well the main reason is because profiles will disappear from portage
>>> after a certain amount of time, and you can't really run without a
>>> profile!!
>>
>> Right, but I still don't understand why it doesn't auto update when it's
>> "ready",
>
> Why should it? If I set the profile to $whatever, I've got my reasons
> to do so.
>
>> because for people like me who rarely visit the gentoo main
>> page I'm not going to know about a new profile unless I manually look
>> around in /usr/portage/profiles.
>
> And because of lazy people, other people have to suffer?

You get big fat warnings once you're using a deprecated profile.

Thanks,
Donnie
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