Bug 900511

Summary:	app-admin/eselect: omit 'stable' and 'dev' from 'eselect profile list' by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sam James <sam>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo eselect Team <eselect>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	floppym, gentoo
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643864
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sam James archtester

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.