On Tuesday 29 April 2008, 21:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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*
I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have found out easily all the available profiles by doing "eselect profile list": # eselect profile list Available profile symlink targets: [1] default-linux/x86/2006.1 [2] default-linux/x86/no-nptl [3] default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop [4] default-linux/x86/2007.0 [5] default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop * [6] hardened/x86/2.6 [7] selinux/2007.0/x86 [8] selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened [9] default/linux/x86/2008.0 [10] default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop [11] default/linux/x86/2008.0/developer [12] default/linux/x86/2008.0/no-nptl [13] default/linux/x86/2008.0/server [14] hardened/linux/x86 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
