On Thursday 12 August 2004 17:01, Jason Huebel wrote:
>
> K, since I'm the release maintainer for amd64, I'm going to chime in on
> this. This may not be a popular opinion, but so be it.
>
> I am of the opinion that a new profile should be part of each new Gentoo
> release.  It may be confusing for the user if s/he is using a 2004.0
> profile with a 2004.2 release.  Whether there are significant profile
> changes or not, Gentoo 2004.0 has a 2004.0 profile, 2004.2 has a 2004.2
> profile, and 2004.3 will have a 2004.3 profile. And so on...  The only
> exception has been 2004.1, but I was still relatively new to being a
> release maintainer and hadn't formulated a solid opinion on profiles.
>
> For the release maintainers, creating a new profile is very simple and
> quick. For users, updating to the new profile is also very simple and
> quick. I fail to see the big problem here.

From what I remember this was not the initial idea. Maybe your position is 
better, but some discussion might be appropriate. I think it should be done 
consistently for the different architectures.

Paul

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