Re: Proposal: Make developer profiles more difficult to select

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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:39:04 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> arcor.de> 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.
> 

Maybe it should be called gentoo-developers or
gentoo-developers-only? :)  Actually, that's not really meant as a joke.

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> 

Regards,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor <at> gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)
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