"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:41:59 -0600:
> On Monday 26 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: [gentoo-desktop] Openssh really needed in desktop > profiles?': >> In other words, Release Engineering wouldn't make a profile that >> *removes* things from base, unless it was incompatible, such as >> removing a package which isn't available due to an incompatibility. > > Okay, that makes sense. But, I don't really think virtual/ssh should be > in the most fundamental profile either. It's simply not that essential > for a running Gentoo system. That was my original point. It's not essential for a generic Gentoo system, so it shouldn't be in the profile for a generic Gentoo system. >> We have a >> simple rule, as things go to the right in our profiles, they go more >> specific, and are additive from the parent. > > I like that rule. Agreed. >> The *only* way we would >> remove virtual/ssh from the desktop profile would mean removing it from >> base, then moving it to every single leaf profile *except* the desktop >> ones. > > Or perhaps, only the few where ssh is part of the system packages like > server-specific profiles, no need to maintain the status quo when you > are already make a change of the same scope. That was what I had in mind. If not now, maybe when profiles get multi-inheritance? >From the dev list, I see Chris G is working on multi-inheritance /experimentally/ for this release. Once it can be added to a single "server" profile that all the various archs can inherit, then it would be a simple matter of taking it out of one place and putting it in one other. Of course, even if multi-inheritance gets in 2007.0, it'll be some time before all the cascading profiles are fully deprecated and removed from the tree, so... -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
