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Bug 233477 - [profiles] target/developer profile - request for added warnings about usage - ie gentoo devs only
Summary: [profiles] target/developer profile - request for added warnings about usage ...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Release Team
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Reported: 2008-07-31 13:27 UTC by Nick Cunningham
Modified: 2017-02-06 20:28 UTC (History)
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Description Nick Cunningham 2008-07-31 13:27:09 UTC
With the new developer profile it seems there are a number of users incorrectly thinking it is a profile aimed at developers in general rather than gentoo devs.

This is causing some problems when they hit QA errors and other bugs that the profile exposes in ebuilds.

Is it possible to make it harder for users to select (require something in make.conf ala experimental gcc versions maybe?) or at the very least add a big warning to it whenever portage is used explaining that the profile is aimed at gentoo devs and may cause problems that users probably dont want to deal with.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-07-31 21:38:30 UTC
base-system has nothing to do with profiles.
Comment 2 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2009-11-05 18:46:45 UTC
I'd like to perform some necromancy on this request for the 10.0 profiles. The developer profiles should be hidden or display obvious warnings about their usage. 

I don't know whether it's people upgrading to the 10.0 profiles or what but I've seen ~10 cases of people using the developer profile and then encountering issues they don't understand because of it in the past few weeks.
Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev 2017-02-06 20:28:40 UTC
Almost 6 years without comments. I'm going to close this one.