On 10 February 2013 23:02, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 10. Februar 2013, 15:15:43 schrieb Markos Chandras:> >> I suspect most people are interested in understanding what changed >> (since deprecation means that the new thing is better than the old >> one). Moreover, the news item is another way to assure them that >> everything is not as bad as the initial "red warning" might had made >> them think so and "keep calm and use Gentoo" ;-) > > OK, here's a news item (actually two, separate for server and non-server > profiles). Since it's a bit late now, I'll commit this or the improved version > after discussion here in 6h (21:00 UTC) unless there are severe protests. > > -- the non-server profile variant (sparing you a lot of Display-If-Profile > lines) > > Title: New 13.0 profiles and deprecation of 10.0 profiles > Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2013-02-10 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/10.0 > Display-If-Profile: default/linux/alpha/10.0/desktop > [...] > Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde > Display-If-Profile: default/linux/x86/10.0/developer > > We have generated a new set of profiles for Gentoo installation. These are now > called 13.0 instead of 10.0. Everyone should upgrade as soon as possible (but > please make sure sys-apps/portage is updated to current stable *before* you > switch profile). > This brings (nearly) no user-visible changes. Some new files have been added > to the profile directories that make it possible for the developers to do more > fine-grained use flag masking (see PMS-5 for the details), and this formally > requires a new profile tree with EAPI=5. > > -- the server profile variant (sparing you the headers entirely) > > We have generated a new set of profiles for Gentoo installation. These are now > called 13.0 instead of 10.0. Everyone should upgrade as soon as possible (but > please make sure sys-apps/portage is updated to current stable *before* you > switch profile). > This brings (nearly) no user-visible changes. Some new files have been added > to the profile directories that make it possible for the developers to do more > fine-grained use flag masking (see PMS-5 for the details), and this formally > requires a new profile tree with EAPI=5. > In the course of this change, the "server" profiles will be removed; they do > not exist in the 13.0 tree anymore. You should migrate to the corresponding > parent profile. This may change the default value of some use-flags. The > specific setting in "server" was > USE="-perl -python snmp truetype xml" > You may want to check the setting of these flags after switching profile, but > otherwise nothing changes. > > > > > -- > > Andreas K. Huettel > Gentoo Linux developer > dilfri...@gentoo.org > http://www.akhuettel.de/ >
Looks good to me! -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin
