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On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, John covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckinnon@×××××.com) wrote |
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> > On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > > > This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me |
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> > > > off as useful important stuff just *goes away* |
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> > > |
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> > > I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have |
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> > > found out easily all the available profiles by doing "eselect profile |
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> > > list": |
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> > > |
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> > > # eselect profile list |
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> > > Available profile symlink targets: |
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> > |
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> > Fair enough, except that I maintain make.profile manually using ln. Same |
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> > with /usr/src/linux. And I've been doing that since my first install |
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> > and have never needed to look for a front end tool that can replace one |
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> > simple command with one simple command. |
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> > |
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> > In fact, I didn't even know about this feature of eselect till 5 minutes |
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> > ago. So now there are two useful and important things that were not |
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> > communicated to users. |
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> > |
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> OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a |
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> 2008.0 -- maybe I need to sync)? Will it unmaks useful packages or |
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> someting? |
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> Thanks. |
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I was wondering that myself. I suspect you can change the profile and |
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then look at something like emerge -pvDuN world and see what it would |
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do. |
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I use eselect but didn't know about this profile option. Nice. |
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- Mark |
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