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 1N0fML-0007Ir-Mf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:52:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8222E084C; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f202.google.com (mail-iw0-f202.google.com [209.85.223.202]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963EDE084C for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:52:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn40 with SMTP id 40so3574867iwn.32 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:52:27 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com Received: by 10.231.9.218 with SMTP id m26mr12689344ibm.29.1256147546480; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:52:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ADF2D9D.30604@gentoo.org> References: <4ADF1C84.8030605@gentoo.org> <4ADF2D9D.30604@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:52:26 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 21d108b40fe8f055 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: News item for default-linux removal (bug #287976) From: Alec Warner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: pr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c155caeb-4856-4960-b67d-c092d358c617 X-Archives-Hash: c819b73bb59912b53e069f6bd5f40240 On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: > Samuli Suominen wrote: >> For http://bugs.gentoo.org/287976, A news item: >> Would this work? > > -- cut -- > > Title: Usage of default-linux as profile is obsolete > Author: Samuli Suominen > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2009-10-21 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Profile: default-linux > > The profiles in default-linux/ have been deprecated for a while now, and > you have been seeing a message of profile switching when using emerge. The profiles in default-linux/ have been deprecated for six weeks. Users using these profiles are expected to migrate to a new profile before 2009-12-01, at which point the default-linux/ profiles will be removed. The new profiles contain up to date configurations and were adopted because they were easier to maintain. Users can switch to a new profile using eselect: > > # eselect profile list > # eselect profile set > > If you don't follow this message, the emerge will simply stop working > until you do. If a machine is not migrated to a new valid profile then emerge will have very limited functionality. > > This change was made to ease maintenance. I reworded this and moved it near the top. > > -- cut -- > > Added some remarks from antarus. > > I'm trying to avoid using 'you' in the announcement which is why all the rewording. -A