Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-21 Thread Ben Kohler
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 21 January 2013 12:16, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be much appreciated if they could respond here. I build

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-20 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 23:47 Sat 19 Jan , Walter Dnes wrote: ... On a lark, I once tried the default/linux/x86/10.0 profile for a re-install on my netbook without -*. I soon ended up with more - entries in make.conf and package.use, than I have add-on entries when using -*. And I was only half-way

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be much appreciated if they could respond here. I build catalyst stage4s. Any default profiles are kindof pointless for me; I have USE=-* and the flags that I want. Anything else seems a bit too

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 21 January 2013 12:16, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be much appreciated if they could respond here. I build catalyst stage4s. Any default profiles are kindof pointless for me; I have

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-20 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:27:18 +0800 Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: On 21 January 2013 12:16, Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote: Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be much appreciated if they could respond here. I build

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 08:01, Christopher Head ch...@chead.ca wrote: I understand that enabling flags only affects packages if they’re installed. I’m just saying that, in my opinion, sane-but-minimal should have CUPS disabled because there are plenty of computers that would want LibreOffice and/or

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: People who do have printers can always enable it themselves. I don't see any reason for cups to be enabled by default, especially not on a minimal profile, and that includes the simple desktop profile. The kde and gnome

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 18:26, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot yng...@gentoo.org wrote: People who do have printers can always enable it themselves. I don't see any reason for cups to be enabled by default, especially not on a minimal profile, and

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/01/13 05:47 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: Actually, that is what I would expect from the more basic oriented ones like Arch and Debian. Printer support should be an optional add-on, not part of the basic install. Maybe I'm too idealistic...

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 07:09:29AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote On Jan 17, 2013 3:35 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: If someone wants a *REALLY* basic system, they can start off with USE=-* and add on

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-18 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:36:18 +0100 Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. The easiest way to do this

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-18 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:02:48 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: We might be talking past each other. Sane but minimal is the target. Bottom line is that the question isn't whether a minimal system should have CUPS installed (that would be an argument for putting it in @system -

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 1/16/2013 11:32, Alexis Ballier wrote: Other option: kill the server subprofiles, keep profiles/target/server and let people finally set /etc/make.profile as a dir and play with multiple inheritance. We don't need dozens of subprofiles with only eapi and parent files in them... A. I would

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: If someone wants a *REALLY* basic system, they can start off with USE=-* and add on stuff as necessary when portage complains and/or ebuilds break. That's what I'd recommend to someone wanting to set up a basic server

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote: my 2ct: * dri and cups should probably be moved to desktop profile * pppd is a local useflag and should be enabled by default in the capi ebuild Definitely agree. Can we make these changes? Cheers, Dirkjan

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Jan 17, 2013 3:35 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman d...@gentoo.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: If someone wants a *REALLY* basic system, they can start off with USE=-* and add on stuff as necessary when portage complains and/or ebuilds break.

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/17/2013 12:32 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 1/16/2013 11:32, Alexis Ballier wrote: Other option: kill the server subprofiles, keep profiles/target/server and let people finally set /etc/make.profile as a dir and play with multiple inheritance. We don't need dozens of subprofiles with

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Christopher Head
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:17:26 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Oh, and keep in mind that flags really only have an effect if the corresponding packages are actually installed. For example, the cups flag doesn't really have an effect unless you install apps that do printing, so it

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Christopher Head ch...@chead.ca wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:17:26 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Oh, and keep in mind that flags really only have an effect if the corresponding packages are actually installed. For example, the cups flag doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:32:01 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Sure, I can think of reasons why I would want chromium with -cups, but the whole point is to target the TYPICAL user. And the context here is servers - how many servers would have chromium installed with -cups? If

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Head ch...@chead.ca wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:32:01 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Sure, I can think of reasons why I would want chromium with -cups, but the whole point is to target the TYPICAL user. And the context here is

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/17/2013 08:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Head ch...@chead.ca wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:32:01 -0500 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: Sure, I can think of reasons why I would want chromium

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Markos Chandras
On 16 January 2013 04:20, Sergey Popov pinkb...@gentoo.org wrote: 16.01.2013 03:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Hi, several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. The

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. The server profiles are not useless, if we can maintain them, and if

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos pchr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Rick Zero_Chaos Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2013 08:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/01/13 08:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Alexis Ballier
Other option: kill the server subprofiles, keep profiles/target/server and let people finally set /etc/make.profile as a dir and play with multiple inheritance. We don't need dozens of subprofiles with only eapi and parent files in them... A.

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Ben de Groot
On 16 January 2013 22:16, Rick Zero_Chaos Farina zeroch...@gentoo.org wrote: We have a base profile, we have a desktop profile... wouldn't that make the base the minimal profile that would likely be fit for a server? If not, we really should move that way. Having a base, desktop, and server

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16/01/13 08:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Thode
On 01/16/2013 01:18 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: On 16/01/13 08:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Doug Goldstein car...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: 2 - the only difference between server profiles and the base profile is USE=+snmp and maybe one other flag USE=-perl -python snmp truetype xml As

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2013 08:12 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos pchr...@gentoo.org wrote: On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote: As has been pointed out previously, the base profile does not set USE=perl python, so negating those flags in the server profile does basically nothing. If certain packages have IUSE=+perl +python it might make a

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2013, 00:36:18 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: Hi, several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. OK, I consider this consensus enough. [One nay

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 22:14 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2013, 00:36:18 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: OK, I consider this consensus enough. ... Being the one that does the work, the server profiles are disappearing in 13.0. Err, ok, so now guys, we 're offering a

How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
I think we agree that the last state of the server profiles was not useful. So let's discuss what would be useful. For the medium-term future, not for this current step now. Err, ok, so now guys, we 're offering a base profile* with dri, cups, gmp, fortran and pppd(?) enabled, at the same

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:59:11AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote Sure a server is something generic, too. However, since you mentioned mysql above, how about a postgres server? Or a web server using a daemon different from apache? :) This is why I think (as others) a server profile

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos pchr...@gentoo.org wrote: Err, ok, so now guys, we 're offering a base profile* with dri, cups, gmp, fortran and pppd(?) enabled, at the same time openmp enabled but threads disabled, no sockets, no caps no apache2 or mysql that I would

[gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi, several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. The easiest way to do this would be to * just not copy the server profiles from 10.0 to 13.0 and * have the

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-15 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 16/01/13 01:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Hi, several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. The easiest way to do this would be to * just not copy the server profiles

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
16.01.2013 03:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Hi, several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. The easiest way to do this would be to * just not copy the server

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-15 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/15/13 3:36 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 - 13.0 transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. The easiest way to do this would be to * just not copy the server