On 16:34 Sat 19 Jul , Josh Saddler wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Reading around on the net, it amazes me how many people are using >> developer profiles for their Gentoo because they think it's for >> software developers and don't see that it's for Gentoo developers and >> not intended for end users. They know the "Developer" installation >> profiles of other distros and think Gentoo's profiles are just the same >> (on those distros, selecting a dev profile just means it installs GCC + >> dev libs + IDEs by default.) >> >> Some kind of warning or other mechanism that does selecting this >> profile without knowing what you're doing would be a good idea. >> > > *shrug* If people would _read_ the documentation, such as > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml or > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=6#doc_chap2, > > then they would know what the profiles are for.
I agree that this is a major problem, and I requested those additions to the documentation to alleviate it. If it remains a problem, this is something we need to figure out a better fix for. Perhaps we could abuse the 'deprecated' file in profiles with this type of message. Developers are basically our core audience, and we need to make things work well for them. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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