On E, 2007-08-27 at 17:11 -0700, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 16:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > Let this be a lesson to everyone. Just because you discussed it a > > > couple months ago doesn't necessarily mean: > > > > > > a) it is still wanted > > > -or- > > > b) it is still valid > > > > so what is the 2.4 status then ? > > Well, we still don't support it on sparc/x86. It is unsupported on > Alpha, too, unless you have one of the machines that 2.6 won't yet run > on, which have been discovered since my last speaking with the team and > is the reason why I screwed up. The idea is to leave it "deprecated" on > alpha without listing a removal date. About the only thing that I have > done here is removed the "November 1st" removal date. Now, maybe we'll > get lucky and can fix the kernel on those machines between now and then, > but if not, it isn't a big deal. It can stay for Alpha and not really > affect too many people. The Alpha machines aren't ones people would > typically use for a desktop, and this was hurried along because of some > requests from the GNOME team, who are hating the 2.4 profiles since > every GNOME since 2.16 has required 2.6/hal/udev to work properly. The > 2.4 profiles are currently causing them headaches, and from my own > experiences, will continue to do so, as more and more things are going > to quit working on 2.4 as time goes on...
The GNOME team is fine with the alpha profile possibly sticking around, because we now have explicit permission from ferdy to gratuitously mask and use.mask any GNOME (and I think even Xorg) things on that profile, as also mentioned in bug #190194. We have no such agreement for the x86 profile afaik, so hopefully that profile will go away soon (1st Nov) then. Thanks for working on the deprecation, -- Mart Raudsepp Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio
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