-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 23/07/12 09:58 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > On 24-07-2012 01:33, Rich Freeman wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto >> <jmbsvice...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>> I propose to commit this news item in 2 or 3 days. Does anyone >>> have any comments about it? > >> What action if any do you want Gentoo users to take. If I read >> that news item the first question I'd have is where SHOULD I >> keep those files? Should I leave them alone? Should I move >> them? Will anything bad happen either way? > >> If the answer is that we're changing the defaults but plan to >> support the old way for a very long time, then spell that out. >> Otherwise you'll get a million people asking about it. > > This is just a heads-up for Gentoo users that got used to find > make.conf and make.profile under /etc in stages, that these files > will stop being there and will instead be under /etc/portage. So we > are changing the defaults.
Given that this just affects new installs, is a news item (via portage) a particularly good way to inform everyone? I was wondering if it'd make more sense to notify on the website and *definitely* change the Handbook... ..and maybe include an '/etc/make.conf.moved' in the stage files for the next 6 months which says the above? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlAOoWkACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDT2gEAv2eTzurXYEjYFaUWE5bRhPrS VDhg0hnxiYeCQl9XYPEBALClflgTBOAzOJIKItcOLgItZqrFxm1lGetvSfBUoT7P =1WOb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
