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 1G8Wj6-0007lS-Ru for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:30:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k736SVDr029371; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:28:31 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k736QXVH028418 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:26:33 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.106] (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6104D64580 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 06:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <44D19672.1020506@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:23:46 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060729) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1? 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> <44D19240.5030903@mid.email-server.info> In-Reply-To: <44D19240.5030903@mid.email-server.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 86da1589-d141-4566-9f36-d399e2e8ff5c X-Archives-Hash: 3a98ec6de11515036598244d258ae071 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Justin R Findlay schrieb: >> 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", > > Why should it? If I set the profile to $whatever, I've got my reasons > to do so. > >> 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. > > And because of lazy people, other people have to suffer? You get big fat warnings once you're using a deprecated profile. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list