From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nnh1p-0002WY-8p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:33:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2070EE0CFE; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:33:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com (mail1.nippynetworks.com [212.227.250.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3C4E0CE4 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7021E67441A for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:33:44 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at nippynetworks.com Received: from mail1.nippynetworks.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.nippynetworks.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id uMLDTIQfzTYD for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:33:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from eds-mbp.wildgooses.local (office.nippynetworks.com [94.194.201.187]) (Authenticated sender: edward@wildgooses.com) by mail1.nippynetworks.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 14133674419 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4B9194D7.5000600@wildgooses.com> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:33:43 +0000 From: Ed W User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles References: <4B8FDB14.10205@gentoo.org> <201003051354.55511.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201003051354.55511.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b08f6ff4-e168-40ad-a5ed-e7d10f3785db X-Archives-Hash: e52b40c2d058fe1b739a2edefdea4798 On 05/03/2010 18:54, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 04 March 2010 11:08:52 Samuli Suominen wrote: > >> Attached you can find the news item for up coming profile cleanup. >> > do profiles really need to be culled this often ? we used to let the tail run > longer and no one complained. it's easier to upgrade an old system when the > current profile is sane than having to create one from scratch because the new > profile uses features not actively available. > > i.e. let's set a limit of like 3 years on profiles > -mike > I think I have mostly upgraded my machines, but I completely agree - I sometimes let some old virtual machines sit unbooted for a year and then suddenly want to use them and bring them up to date and occasionally this can be a right old pain in the derrier... Surely 4 months is too short a warning for profiles which can easily be simply left to rot instead?