On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 23:48 +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > I've just removed a few deprecated profiles for amd64, and saw that > there are still quite a lot of non-cascading profiles around. > The following profiles say they have been removed by 2005.04.01: > > default-sparc-1.4 > default-sparc-2004.0 > default-sparc64-1.4 > default-sparc64-2004.0 > > I hope this is not an April Fool's joke ;) > There are also many other profiles which are probably deprecated for > ages, but don't contain an information about when they will be taken out > of portage. > > Other possible candidates for a clean-up: > > default-alpha-1.4 > default-alpha-2004.0 > default-ppc-1.4 > default-ppc-2004.0 > default-ppc-2004.1 > default-ppc-2004.2 > default-ppc64-2004.2 > default-x86-2004.2 > gcc33-sparc64-1.4 > hardened-x86-2004.0 > > I didn't check them all, so I may be wrong, but some of them are > deprecated for over a year now. > > There are also some cascading profiles which are really old and probably > should be removed.
Last time that I checked, each arch needs at least one non-cascaded profile, due to older versions of portage not working with cascaded profiles. Either this, or users will not be able to upgrade from old installations that have not been upgraded for some time. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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