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Bug 900511 - app-admin/eselect: omit 'stable' and 'dev' from 'eselect profile list' by default
Summary: app-admin/eselect: omit 'stable' and 'dev' from 'eselect profile list' by def...
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo eselect Team
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Reported: 2023-03-09 09:22 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2023-03-11 17:32 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2023-03-09 09:22:48 UTC
In #gentoo, we fairly often get users who read 'eselect profile list' and think that 'stable' or 'dev' correspond to amd64 vs ~amd64.

Usually, stable vs dev doesn't have much actual consequence to users, if any, and only stable/dev vs exp actually matters.

I suggest:
1. We don't show (stable) or (dev) at all, or
2. We only show (stable) or (dev) with a --verbose flag or similar.
Comment 1 Ulrich Müller gentoo-dev 2023-03-09 12:46:19 UTC
Displaying the profiles' status was explicitly requested in bug 643864, "to make it clear that dev/exp profiles are not intended for general use".

If that distinction is no longer useful, then maybe it should be dropped from profiles.desc? eselect simply displays the information from the file.


(In reply to Sam James from comment #0)
> 2. We only show (stable) or (dev) with a --verbose flag or similar.

We already have this: with the --brief option, the status is not shown.