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From: Sergey Kobzar <tod.zullu@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:26:35
Message-Id: 16210175824.20080522122631@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is 2008.0_beta2 stable enough? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil, thanks for help. You gave me answers on all my questions :)
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4 Thursday, May 22, 2008, 12:11:41 PM, Neil wrote:
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6 > On Thu, 22 May 2008 11:38:52 +0300, Sergey Kobzar wrote:
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8 >> > I've been running with 2008.0/desktop profiles for a few weeks with no
9 >> > problems,
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11 >> but then you switched back to 2007?
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13 > No, I'm still running 2008.0.
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15 >> > but a profile isn't much more than a collection of USE flags, so
16 >> > installing with 2007.0 and switching later is simple.
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18 >> I'm agree with you, but it may require recompiling mostly all
19 >> installed software. Well, it's not a really big problem anyway.
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21 > It doesn't. Switching profiles mainly changes a few default USE flags.
22 > Only a few packages are recompiled by emerge --newuse and none of those
23 > are "required". The most you have customised your USE flags, the less
24 > will be changed by the profile switch.
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26 >> I'd want to use 2008 beta2 if it's stable enough.
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28 > There is no beta profile. The install discs based on 2008.0 are still in
29 > beta, but the profiles are plain 2008.0. It's really no big deal whether
30 > you use an 07 or 08 profile.
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