From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:43:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws2fjwon.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4AE6863A.9080703@gentoo.org
Jonathan Callen <abcd@gentoo.org> writes:
> 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.
He he... well put I guess... but I've found over time in other aspects
of the linux/unix world... that what is intended for devs or other
`adepts' can often have useful stuff even for a pea-brain like me.
It doesn't mean you have to get involved in actual developement.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-26 23:31 [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile Harry Putnam
2009-10-26 23:36 ` Crístian Viana
2009-10-26 23:40 ` Sebastian Beßler
2009-10-26 23:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-27 0:23 ` Dale
2009-10-26 23:48 ` William Kenworthy
2009-10-26 23:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-27 1:52 ` W.Kenworthy
2009-10-27 4:52 ` Dale
2009-10-27 3:23 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2009-10-27 5:33 ` Jonathan Callen
2009-10-28 16:43 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2009-10-27 8:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-27 8:46 ` Justin
2009-10-28 16:52 ` Harry Putnam
2009-10-28 16:59 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-28 22:03 ` Dale
2009-10-28 23:43 ` Alan McKinnon
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