On Sunday 25 February 2007 20:14:22 Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 15:09 +0000, Duncan wrote: > > Why is openssh (as virtual/ssh) part of the desktop profiles? > > Uhh... Because I like it and people expect it to be there. You're more > than capable of removing it from your system.
'cept since it's in the profile it's considered part of system, so a great many emerges (particularly emerge -avtuND world) want to bring it back in. The package.provided and editing virtuals hacks should be unnecessary to have a system without an ssh daemon installed. > Feel free to bring it up, but the desktop profile is maintained by > Release Engineering since it is used to build release media. I have no > intentions on removing it, since I see it as invaluable. It is invaluable for the release media. I don't want to see it missing from there. > My personal belief is that the profiles shouldn't be removing > requirements on things unless they're incompatible. My personal belief is that the profiles should be minimalistic, only bringing in thing that are really required -- but perhaps, I should be using the parent profile of desktop instead, then? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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