From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G8Wt0-0002sr-19 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:40:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k736ce0N012108; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:38:40 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (cumulus.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k736aanH003475 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:36:38 GMT Received: from [192.168.2.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B4C68035 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 16:36:34 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1? From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20060803035502.GB6200@jfindlay.us> References: <200608020054.58779.germanobax@yahoo.com.br> <200608021740.38576.germanobax@yahoo.com.br> <7573e9640608021438i799c7d6euc416023c92d964e2@mail.gmail.com> <20060803000928.GA6200@jfindlay.us> <7573e9640608021740i56bd4c26j9256b08cba152159@mail.gmail.com> <20060803035502.GB6200@jfindlay.us> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:06:29 +0930 Message-Id: <1154586989.26493.25.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 681c611f-edc3-4066-8d41-0c9b79384643 X-Archives-Hash: dcbc5272f27208438ca7baae93198248 On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:55 -0600, Justin R Findlay wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > Well the main reason is because profiles will disappear from portage > > after a certain amount of time, and you can't really run without a > > profile!! > > Right, but I still don't understand why it doesn't auto update when it's > "ready", because for people like me who rarely visit the gentoo main > page I'm not going to know about a new profile unless I manually look > around in /usr/portage/profiles. yes you will know. Eventually you will get a message every time you do an emerge that says something like "your profile is deprecated, please see www.blah.blah for information on updating to the latest profile"... so you will know when it matters :) -- Iain Buchanan >Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list