On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
I don't think the profiles are not intended for end users; if they are only intended for developers we could just exclude them from the rsync tree. That being said I think it is fairly trivial to rename it to 'ebuild-developer'. Screw all these stupid warnings and VARS_IN_ALL_CAPS> Just name shit properly and I'm sure folks can probably figure it out. I feel very badly for the 'developers' running with 'stricter' or other insane portage features that basically make the distro unusable ;p -Alec > > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > >
