Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 2004.2 Profile

[John Davis <zhen@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:11, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> The idea of changing a virtual mid-release has *always* bothered me and
> is a prime example of Gentoo's problems when it comes to enterprise
> users.  In an enterprise environment, consistency between releases is
> expected.  I should *never* have to wonder which X server got installed
> between on each machine between multiple 2004.2 installations.  I should
> *know* that 2004.0 and 2004.1 used XFree86 and that 2004.2+ uses X.org's
> server.

But at this point in time, Gentoo is *not* an Enterprise system.
Packages have zero consistency between releases (even between weeks).
Creating a whole new profile and then going through the hoops
(documentation and user support) to get them all to switch over to the
new profile far outweighs the benefit .. especially for (basically) one
package!

The problem of consistency is far beyond the xfree/ xorg switch. Why put
all of the effort into one package when we don't have more important
things, like our toolchain, stabilized between releases?

Cheers,
-- 
John Davis
Gentoo Linux Developer
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>

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