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 profiles. >> > > The server profiles are not useless, if we can maintain them, and if > they actually are, nowadays, they shouldn't be. > > -1, unless other profile options being offered are "minimal" enough for the > job > and enabling certain things that someone may need in a server.
The problem, I think, is that 'server' is a very generic thing. Am I looking for a NAS? A SAN? A web server? A proxy server? An X11 application server? A font server? VOIP? If people who use the server profile are looking for a minimalist profile, I think they'd probably be best served with a profile that's specifically designed for "we disable everything we can to still wind up with a working stage 3. Enable what you need from there." That also suggests a way to help automate maintenance; if building a stage 3 with the minimal profile fails, then either the package has a bug or the profile needs an update...with a strong bias toward the former. -- :wq
