On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 14:21 +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote: > Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Do we really need a front-page news item for this? I don't think the > > impact would be terribly great, as I suspect this affects a very small > > number of people whom are likely to be more advanced users. I think > > adding the info to GMN/gentoo-dev-announce/gentoo-user should suffice. > > If someone thinks we need to do a front-page article, we can do that, > > too. > > IIRC it will affect only 2008 profiles, and not older, so people have to > switch profiles first? Which already involves knowing what you're doing? > So what about putting up a GMN/front page article announcing all such > changes in new profiles, and not just for debianutils removal. I don't > recall there was this kind of article/documentation before, but might be > wrong.
Ehh, I didn't say I was only doing it for 2008.0's profiles. I *could* but there's not really much point. The package isn't needed in "system" for anything to compile/run, so why should we force it onto everyone's machines? -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer
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