Re: [gentoo-user] What is the release date for 2006.1?

["Richard Fish" <bigfish@asmallpond.org>]

On 8/2/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> > Does this link get moved when the "release" is ready?
>
> Changing the profile can sometimes cause a lot of updates, changes to
> use flags, features, etc, so no, it is not done automatically.
> Generally after changing the make.profile link, you will want to do an
> "emerge -DNuvp world" to see what changed.

Just as an example, as it currently sets the 2006.1 profile looks to
have use.defaults of:

USE="cups gdbm gpm libg++ nptl nptlonly ppds udev unicode"

while the 2006.0 profile has:

USE="alsa apache2 apm arts avi cups eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb
gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad
mikmod motif mp3 mpeg nptl ogg opengl oss pdflib png qt qt3 qt4
quicktime sdl spell truetype udev vorbis X xml xmms xv"

Thus, you could end up with a lot of missing use flags if you did just
a simple change.  What you will probabliy really want with 2006.1 is
one of the sub-profiles, like 2006.1/desktop, which has similar use
flags to 2006.0.

-Richard
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