On Friday 13 August 2004 1:58 pm, William Hubbs wrote:
> I don't see why we need the yearly refreshes either.
>
> I like the suggestion of making the names more descriptive in stead of
> using numbers. Fore example, default/linux/am64.
> Then, you might have default/linux/am64/gcc34.
> Suppose that you decide to make the default am64 profile use gcc 3.4.  All
> you have to do is merge the am64/gcc34 profile into the am64 profile. You
> could do this type of merging with any revision you want to become part of
> the default profile, and otherwise not change the default profile at all.
>
> What do you think?

Again I'm concerned that there isn't a built-in revision history outside of 
CVS using this method.  Since users don't have CVS access, they don't have a 
convenient way to tell which profile is the "newest".  Since we can't be sure 
that everyone has moved off a particular profile, we have to keep ALL the 
profiles around for an extended period of time.  So not having a revision 
history makes it more difficult to understand what the latest and greatest 
is.

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