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On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > Hmmm. I may have read this latest post just in time. My system |
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> > contains |
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> /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop and I had just |
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> linked /etc/make.profile to it and synced up. I was about to emerge |
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> world -- it was |
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> going to rebuild 124 packages (a lot of kde stuff for one thing). |
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> I think I'll go back to 2007 for now.... |
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> The question: if it hasn't been released, what is this profile doing |
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> on my system, and how am I supposed to know? |
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I rattled off the path to profiles from memory in my previous post |
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without actually checking what I had on the machine :-) |
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When I went to look for it, I didn't find a 2008.0 profile at first - |
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that took a 'find' command. I see now I have: |
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/var/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0/ |
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/var/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/ |
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When did this gratuitous and 100% cosmetic-only zero-value-adding naming |
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convention change happen? GMN is the obvious place to announce it, I |
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read them all, I don't recall seeing this. I've been using gentoo for |
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years, the standard profile paths are tatooed in my brain. If it |
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weren't for this thread I would probably have been blissfully ignorant |
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for many more months. "Read the install docs" doesn't work for me - I |
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haven't needed install docs for years now. |
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This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me off as |
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useful important stuff just *goes away* |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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