On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 01:38, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > you know, this maybe silly, but I do kind of like not having version > numbers at all, and maybe making the profile names more descriptive > > so in the amd64 profile, you'd have gcc34, for example > and in all of them, we could have xfree and xorg profiles. > Thoughts? I could see either way working. The nice thing about your proposal is that it cuts all of the bloat associated with version numbering. The only con that I can see is that it does not offer a standardized way of marking profile revisions like jhuebel's does (-r1, -r2, no matter what the arch or the change). Since this is a good comment, I am forwarding it to the list ;) Regards, -- John Davis Gentoo Linux Developer ---- GnuPG Public Key: Fingerprint: 4F9E 41F6 D072 5C1A 636C 2D46 B92C 4823 E281 41BB