Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008, 21:00, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> I rattled off the path to profiles from memory in my previous post
> without actually checking what I had on the machine :-)
>
> When I went to look for it, I didn't find a 2008.0 profile at first -
> that took a 'find' command. I see now I have:
>
> /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0/
> /var/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/
>
> When did this gratuitous and 100% cosmetic-only zero-value-adding
> naming convention change happen? GMN is the obvious place to announce
> it, I read them all, I don't recall seeing this. I've been using
> gentoo for years, the standard profile paths are tatooed in my brain.
> If it weren't for this thread I would probably have been blissfully
> ignorant for many more months. "Read the install docs" doesn't work
> for me - I haven't needed install docs for years now.
>
> This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me off
> as useful important stuff just *goes away*

I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have found 
out easily all the available profiles by doing "eselect profile list":

# eselect profile list
Available profile symlink targets:
  [1]   default-linux/x86/2006.1
  [2]   default-linux/x86/no-nptl
  [3]   default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop
  [4]   default-linux/x86/2007.0
  [5]   default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop *
  [6]   hardened/x86/2.6
  [7]   selinux/2007.0/x86
  [8]   selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
  [9]   default/linux/x86/2008.0
  [10]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop
  [11]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer
  [12]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/no-nptl
  [13]  default/linux/x86/2008.0/server
  [14]  hardened/linux/x86
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