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diff --git a/metadata/news/2009-10-22-default-linux/2009-10-22-default-linux.en.txt b/metadata/news/2009-10-22-default-linux/2009-10-22-default-linux.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..88ca0e041566 --- /dev/null +++ b/metadata/news/2009-10-22-default-linux/2009-10-22-default-linux.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +Title: Using default-linux profile is now obsolete +Author: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> +Content-Type: text/plain +Posted: 2009-10-22 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 1.0 +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/alpha +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/amd64 +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/arm +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/ia64 +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/m68k +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/s390 +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/sh +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/sparc +Display-If-Profile: default-linux/x86 + +The profiles in default-linux/ have been deprecated for six weeks. +Users using these profiles are expected to migrate to a new profile +before 2009-12-01, at which point the default-linux/ profiles will be +removed. The new profiles contain up to date configurations and were +adopted because they were easier to maintain. Users can switch to a +new profile using eselect: + +# eselect profile list +# eselect profile set <target> + +If a machine is not migrated to a new valid profile before the deprecated +profiles are removed, emerge will have very limited functionality until +the migration is done. |