Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: 2004.0 Profile Deprecated

[Jason Huebel <jhuebel@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 12 August 2004 6:20 pm, John Davis wrote:
> Precisely! When seemant and I first talked about the cascading profile
> implementation, we had every intention of avoiding release specific
> versioning scheme. AFAIK, this is still the case. I still think that
> this is the best route to follow due to the fact that not much changes
> between releases. If there are special cases (take xorg for example), we
> can always make an exception to the rule.

Maybe it would make more sense to have yearly refreshes of the profiles, with 
profile "revisions" during the year using -r#. For instance, 2004 would have:

default-linux/amd64/2004 (equivalent to the 2004.0 profile)
default-linux/amd64/2004-r1 (equivalent to the 2004.2 profile)

Then next year (even though it isn't strictly necessary), we could have:

default-linux/amd64/2005

It would basically be the same as the last 2004 revision, but I can't think of 
a better major version number than using the year.  Then we could have 
revisions after that.

Actually, we might even be able to do something like this:

default-linux/amd64/2005/r0
default-linux/amd64/2005/r1

... and so on.  Thoughts?

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