On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Alex Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: >> > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: >> > > If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, >> > > who only want a minimum >> > > amount of default profile enabled USE flags (so no desktop profile >> > > because of that), but on the >> > > other side dont want to do the additional work/checks/reading for >> > > hardened profiles (which have much >> > > less profile enabled USE flags, but also have the special gcc, glibc and >> > > Kernel), basicly a profile, >> > > which does the same as hardened profile without the specific hardened >> > > bits. >> > > >> > > >> > >> > Isn't this essentially what the default profile is? Basically server is >> > just default + USE="apache2 ldap mysql snmp truetype xml". >> Well it shouldn't be like that. And if the default profile is pretty >> much the same as the server one, then please consider removing the >> server profile as it makes no sense then > > Please don't. The fact that there are only a few changes doesn't make it > useless. Also, you'd be forcing all users currently using the profile to > migrate without any real reason.
We don't really delete profiles (maybe once every few years...) We could opt to mark the server target deprecated and not update it anymore. -A > > -- > Alex Alexander | wired > Gentoo Linux Developer | Council / Qt / Chromium / more > www.linuxized.com >
