On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:47:32PM -0700, Alec Warner wrote: > 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 > > > I did not literally mean what I said. My intention is to make server profiles useful. They are not equivalent to default profile ( at least they shouldn't). I see that this discussion is moving to dead-end so I will to what I suggested at least at the amd64 profile
1) drop apache2, ldap use flags 2) Adjust warning message to reflect reallity in 72 hours --- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Key ID: 441AC410 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410
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