Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 2004.2 Profile

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 19:16, Spider wrote:
> begin  quote
> On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:00:18 -0500
> Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@skylineaero.com> wrote:
> 
> > I don't understand why the switch from xfree to xorg-x11 is a big
> > deal. They are currently source and binary compatible. Almost
> > everything (if not everything)  works the same with xorg-x11 as it did
> > with xfree.
> 
> 
> 
> Except that if you do something like this :
> emerge sync; emerge -u world
> cp -a /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/ssh /etc/pass* /etc/grou* /etc/shad*
> /etc/conf.d /etc/pcmcia /etc/rc.conf  /var/lib/portage/world /backup
> 
> reformat, unpack the -same- stage3, and then restore them...
> 
> oops. suddenly things don't work because even when they are binary
> compatible, they aren't config compatible, and users should be able to
> expect that if they install the same applications (face it, the world
> file isn't likely to contain the xfree version, most likely it contains
> mozilla, Gnome, KDE, xfce or other such thing that brought X in as a
> dependency ) They will get them.  We currently break reliability often,
> which is a pretty bad thing. :-/
> 
> only by actually doing things like this new profile, can we in fact
> increase reliability.  

So what is the consensus?  I am either going to make the new profile or
make xorg-x11 the default in the current profile as soon as spyderous
marks it stable, so we can start building the stages for 2004.2.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
Gentoo Linux

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