On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > Hmmm. I may have read this latest post just in time. My system > > contains > > /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop and I had just > linked /etc/make.profile to it and synced up. I was about to emerge > world -- it was > going to rebuild 124 packages (a lot of kde stuff for one thing). > > I think I'll go back to 2007 for now.... > > The question: if it hasn't been released, what is this profile doing > on my system, and how am I supposed to know?
I rattled off the path to profiles from memory in my previous post without actually checking what I had on the machine :-) When I went to look for it, I didn't find a 2008.0 profile at first - that took a 'find' command. I see now I have: /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0/ /var/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/ When did this gratuitous and 100% cosmetic-only zero-value-adding naming convention change happen? GMN is the obvious place to announce it, I read them all, I don't recall seeing this. I've been using gentoo for years, the standard profile paths are tatooed in my brain. If it weren't for this thread I would probably have been blissfully ignorant for many more months. "Read the install docs" doesn't work for me - I haven't needed install docs for years now. This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me off as useful important stuff just *goes away* -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
