Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles

["Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>]

> What is bad about doing *only* `emerge --sync` and security updates?

Nothing, however if they have been doing security only updates, I think
that their install won't be *too* far behind the stable tree.  Besides,
at some point old ebuilds are completely removed from portage anyway,
and therefore there is no support for those versions if somebody tries
to submit a bug.  This is really getting into a whole different
discussion altogether about having a security update only tree, but
there has been talk of this a few times before...search the mailing list
archives.

> This is not my case so it's quite possible that no such users exist (so
> the gentoo-dev ml isn't probably the best place to ask if they exist,
> btw), but if you do something that will prevent *everyone* who is so
> "late with upgrades" from continuing, you'll introduce (IMHO dangerous)
> precedence about backward compatibility.

Removing old profiles will do nothing other than forcing them to set a
new profile.  Changing the profile won't stop people from doing security
only updates.

-Steve
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