[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Jonathan Callen a...@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

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you? x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited (tweaked) for that kind of usage. [...] Nice.. thanks I see I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 18:52:33 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you? x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server give you a profile more suited

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2009 18:52:33 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Alan, what does it get you? In fact what does `developer' buy you? x86/10.0 gives you a baseline for that release x86/10.0/desktop|developer|server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 29 October 2009 00:03:36 Dale wrote: So this is why OOo won't compile all of a sudden. May have to put -kde in package.use then. See if that helps. Thanks Alan. Dale :-) :-) P. S. Should I report the failure or do they already know about this? The bug report shows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 October 2009 05:23:25 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-27 Thread Justin
Alan McKinnon wrote: # As much as it pains me, we hope that developers know what they're doing. I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING=yes developer is the union between desktop and server. The developer profile is primarily intended to be used by Gentoo developer, not for Software developer in

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 * [2] default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop [3] default/linux/x86/10.0/developer [4] default/linux/x86/10.0/server [5] hardened/linux/x86/10.0 [6] selinux/2007.0/x86 [7]

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge advises upgrade profile

2009-10-26 Thread Jonathan Callen
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.