From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2egq-0006e1-AN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:33:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE9E5E08DC; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD55E08DC for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:33:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-173-71-201-218.clppva.fios.verizon.net [173.71.201.218]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A29C67419 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4AE6863A.9080703@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:33:46 -0400 From: Jonathan Callen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091024) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile References: <87my3dohps.fsf@newsguy.com> <1256600902.19685.207.camel@rattus> <200910270152.27090.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <87eiopo6z6.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87eiopo6z6.fsf@newsguy.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b5c5a2e3-ce28-4ea4-a37e-265a4ece0a17 X-Archives-Hash: be27f95cc12b792ac16aaee1a42fe7f1 Harry Putnam wrote: > In fact what does `developer' buy you? Among other things, it enables I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING, which tells you the expected audience :). Seriously, the developer profiles are mainly for Gentoo Devs, people who are going to be doing a lot of debugging and testing of ebuilds. If you don't know if this is you, it isn't. -- Jonathan