[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] x86 2004.2 Profile

[Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>]

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Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Fri Jul 09 2004, 10:42:59AM EDT]
> For consitency's sake, yes, it is necessary.  I don't want to build a
> machine today using the 2004.0 profile and build a machine tomorrow
> using *the same profile* and have one using xfree and one using
> xorg-x11.

Just to make sure I understand, you're suggesting a new profile that
removes the absolutely pointless xfree line in the packages file
(pointless because it's not a system file and we haven't had any xfree
ebuilds in portage that fail to satisfy the requirement since probably
the 1.2 days) and change the default x11 virtual to point to xorg-x11?

It's not really clear to me that a new profile needs to be created every
time a default virtual changes.  My reasoning is that any user who
already has something installed that satisfies that virtual will see
absolutely no difference with the new profile.  With X, that would be the
vast majority of our users, who then might well be more confused
that using the new profile does _not_ cause them to upgrade to xorg-x11.

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