On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:08:34PM +0200, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > 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.
And now everything is being friendly sorted out between Chris and the alpha arch team. Sorry everybody (and specially Chris) for the over-reaction, but I felt it was needed. - ferdy -- Fernando J. Pereda GarcimartÃn 20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4
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