On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:57:48AM -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> As many of you may know, the Gentoo Kernel team has stopped supporting
> our last 2.4 kernel sources in the tree, gentoo-sources-2.4.  Since we
> no longer have an officially supported 2.4 kernel on alpha/sparc/x86, I
> have deprecated the 2.4 profiles for those architectures.  The 2.4
> kernel has had a good run with Gentoo.  It is a shame to see it go, but
> we're finding more and more applications are requiring hal/udev or other
> 2.6-only requirements, making for a hard time for teams like Gnome.  The
> profiles are slated to be removed on or after November 1st.  There is no
> "upgrade path" as we will no longer have 2.4 profiles, but it should be
> a fairly smooth transition to any 2.6 profile.

It's a shame that you've done that BEFORE asking the relevant arch
teams. Thats a REAL BIG SHAME.

Consider your changes on the alpha profiles reverted as soon as I get to
my machine.

- ferdy

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