Re: [gentoo-dev] Removal of default/linux/x86/gcc2 and default/linux/x86/vserver

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 04/09/2011 01:30 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> On 4/9/11 10:50 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> On 04/09/2011 11:35 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>> The 2 profiles in $subject will go away in 30 days wrt bug #361133.
>>>
>>
>> And some early warning:
>>
>> If you still use Linux 2.4, you should really look into migrating away
>> from it.  For now the 2.4 profiles stay but that might not be the case
>> for much longer.
> 
> Isn't that a material for a news item? I mean both the 2 profiles
> removal and the above.
> 

That's what the 'deprecated' [1][2] file in profiles is for.  I don't
see a reason to duplicate it in a news item for gcc2 and vserver profiles:

- The profile is hardly the least of problem for using gcc2, the rest of
the tree haven't been buildable with it for a long time. So I'm pretty
sure this hits 0 users.

- baselayout-vserver had been masked since 2009 with a message telling
users to move away from it, so this should also hit 0 users.

But you might be right for Kernel 2.4, that duplication might be worth
it, but as it's not going to get removed yet... We'll just see about
that later on.

[1]
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/default/linux/x86/vserver/deprecated?view=log

[2]
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/default/linux/x86/gcc2/deprecated?view=log