On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:55 -0600, Justin R Findlay wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:40:17PM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > Well the main reason is because profiles will disappear from portage > > after a certain amount of time, and you can't really run without a > > profile!! > > Right, but I still don't understand why it doesn't auto update when it's > "ready", because for people like me who rarely visit the gentoo main > page I'm not going to know about a new profile unless I manually look > around in /usr/portage/profiles.
yes you will know. Eventually you will get a message every time you do an emerge that says something like "your profile is deprecated, please see www.blah.blah for information on updating to the latest profile"... so you will know when it matters :) -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> >Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
