Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 May 2006 21:35, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote:
> 
>>Sorry if i am confusing things here, but isn't this just _yet_ another
>>profile that
>>the user can choose to use?
> 
> A profile in the tree has to be supported by someone.
> It's also more likely that people would try it out without knowing what they 
> are going to open.
> 
> An overlay makes users more conscious that they are going to require manual 
> work and they have to know where to look for support. If it's in portage, 
> it's more likely that users won't look at it deeply and just think that "it's 
> portage, so goes to gentoo bugzilla".

See /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/dev/README :)

Blesmrt,
-jkt

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