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 1No2dK-00071D-C5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:38:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F088E0B57; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 22:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D96E0AEC for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 22:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [83.146.207.236] (dyn-207-236-dsl.vsp.fi [83.146.207.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F001B4065 for ; Sat, 6 Mar 2010 22:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B92DB68.8030009@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:47:04 +0200 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100213 Thunderbird/3.0.1 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] Re: RFC: News item for removal of 2008.0 and old hardened profiles References: <4B8FDB14.10205@gentoo.org> <4B9194D7.5000600@wildgooses.com> <201003061731.53117.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201003061731.53117.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: eb50975a-8981-4800-8be1-4653581b164a X-Archives-Hash: f7b24f7c6c88981d0f3a1aa87786e687 On 03/07/2010 12:31 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 05 March 2010 20:22:44 Duncan wrote: >> Ed W posted on Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:33:43 +0000 as excerpted: >>> 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, if you've let it go for a year, it's about as easy to reinstall >> from a new stage-3 as it is to try to update from where you are? > > tell that to my headless machines. shout at their butts. > -mike no real rush, we can postpone it, but 3 years sounds a bit too much imho how about news item this year's November, and removal on next January? approx - Samuli