Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-14 Thread Petteri Räty
Preston Cody wrote: > A few months ago the Gentoo Release engineering team changed the way > that releases are done to simplfy, automate, and provide more current > release media on a more regular basis. One of the consequences of > this is that the livecds are no-longer being released. This leav

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-14 Thread Ben de Groot
Petteri Räty wrote: > Preston Cody wrote: >> [...] This leaves >> the installer with no place or function any longer. The installer >> developers have all moved on to other projects, leaving GLI in an >> unmaintained state. We can no-longer offer support for the 2008.0-r1 >> LiveCDs for x86 and a

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Petteri Räty wrote: Why wasn't this sent to gentoo-dev-announce? It should be posted on front page gentoo.org if that is not already in the works. Thanks, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-14 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I realize it might be a bit obvious to us, but from reading it people might wonder how they're supposed to carry out installs now. When the notice finally goes out, it might be worth mentioning that just the LiveCDs are no longer supported, and mentio

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: package.mask

2009-01-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:05 Mon 12 Jan , AllenJB wrote: > In my opinion the cvs commit log and the ChangeLog serve 2 different > purposes. The cvs log is for developers while the ChangeLog is for > users. While the cvs log will likely just want to explain what change > was made, the ChangeLog should explain

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 21:54 Tue 13 Jan , Preston Cody wrote: > A few months ago the Gentoo Release engineering team changed the way > that releases are done to simplfy, automate, and provide more current > release media on a more regular basis. One of the consequences of > this is that the livecds are no-longer

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLI Officially Deprecated

2009-01-14 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 15:23 Wed 14 Jan , Ben de Groot wrote: > Also, will we have an announcement on the www.gentoo.org frontpage? This > seems to me an important enough issue to inform our users about. Yeah, I'll get something up. I've got a few pending now. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gento