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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:12:22 +0000
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On 10 February 2013 15:02, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2013, 15:15:43 schrieb Markos Chandras:>
>> I suspect most people are interested in understanding what changed
>> (since deprecation means that the new thing is better than the old
>> one). Moreover, the news item is another way to assure them that
>> everything is not as bad as the initial "red warning" might had made
>> them think so and "keep calm and use Gentoo" ;-)
>
> OK, here's a news item (actually two, separate for server and non-server
> profiles). Since it's a bit late now, I'll commit this or the improved ve=
rsion
> after discussion here in 6h (21:00 UTC) unless there are severe protests.
>
> -- the non-server profile variant (sparing you a lot of Display-If-Profil=
e
> lines)
>
> Title: New 13.0 profiles and deprecation of 10.0 profiles
> Author: Andreas K. H=FCttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2013-02-10
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/10.0
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/10.0/desktop
> [...]
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde
> Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/10.0/developer
>
> We have generated a new set of profiles for Gentoo installation. These ar=
e now
> called 13.0 instead of 10.0. Everyone should upgrade as soon as possible =
(but
> please make sure sys-apps/portage is updated to current stable *before* y=
ou
> switch profile).
> This brings (nearly) no user-visible changes. Some new files have been ad=
ded
> to the profile directories that make it possible for the developers to do=
more
> fine-grained use flag masking (see PMS-5 for the details), and this forma=
lly
> requires a new profile tree with EAPI=3D5.
>
> -- the server profile variant (sparing you the headers entirely)
>
> We have generated a new set of profiles for Gentoo installation. These ar=
e now
> called 13.0 instead of 10.0. Everyone should upgrade as soon as possible =
(but
> please make sure sys-apps/portage is updated to current stable *before* y=
ou
> switch profile).
> This brings (nearly) no user-visible changes. Some new files have been ad=
ded
> to the profile directories that make it possible for the developers to do=
more
> fine-grained use flag masking (see PMS-5 for the details), and this forma=
lly
> requires a new profile tree with EAPI=3D5.
> In the course of this change, the "server" profiles will be removed; they=
do
> not exist in the 13.0 tree anymore. You should migrate to the correspondi=
ng
> parent profile. This may change the default value of some use-flags. The
> specific setting in "server" was
> USE=3D"-perl -python snmp truetype xml"
> You may want to check the setting of these flags after switching profile,=
but
> otherwise nothing changes.
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Andreas K. Huettel
> Gentoo Linux developer
> dilfridge@gentoo.org
> http://www.akhuettel.de/
>
Looks good to me. Thanks
--=20
Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang