On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 22:13 +0200, Jan Kundrát wrote: > 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 :)
Yeah, except that's a lie. I actually do support it. That is mostly there to let people know that I do play around in there and have been known to break things in the past. It is where I do all of the profile work before a release, so I might play with ideas that do things that a user might not want. Basically, I don't follow the same "be very careful before adding stuff" mantra in there as I would on default-linux/x86. That being said, I don't put anything there that I don't have *somebody* out there testing, so it's known to work on at least a few systems. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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