Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-20 Thread Alec Warner
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 f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-19 Thread Donnie Berkholz
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 intend

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-19 Thread Ben de Groot
Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Some kind of warning or other mechanism that does selecting this >> profile without knowing what you're doing would be a good idea. > > This isn't enough? > > %% grep KNOW * > make.defaults:I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING="yes" > > ;) > > Nobody ever re

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-19 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Some kind of warning or other mechanism that does selecting this profile without knowing what you're doing would be a good idea. This isn't enough? %% grep KNOW * make.defaults:I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING="yes" ;)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-19 Thread Josh Saddler
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 pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-19 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:39:04 +0300 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

[gentoo-dev] Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

2008-07-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
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 a