On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 20:08 +0200, Rémi Cardona wrote: > Duncan wrote: > > It's probably a bit late now (unless we want to wait yet another few > > months), but tying this to a profile upgrade might have been a more > > practical solution. 2007.0, or now 2007.1. Old profiles would stick > > with the old expat, and new ones would get the new one. People are > > generally prepared for at least a /bit/ of extra upheaval when they do > > profile upgrades, and that would have made the PR a bit easier as well, > > since that's a natural time for it. > > Sounds good to me. To complement what Mart (leio) said earlier, a good > timing for Gnome is either 2.16.3 or 2.18.0/1, the latter not being due > for stable in for another few weeks. > > My opinion: the sooner the better. But having new stages for new > installs so that users don't have to find out about revdep-rebuild the > minute they finish their install is probably the best way to go. > > The profile idea looks ideal.
No. It would have been ideal if we would have done it with the release. Now, it means people *will* need to use revdep-rebuild as soon as they install their shiny new system if they use binary packages. People coming from stage3 would be fine, of course. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
