On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 16/01/13 08:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos 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. >> > > Just to summarize the last massive thread on this: > > 1 - they aren't maintained; they haven't changed for years
I think you're confusing updates with maintenance. They work fine as is therefore no need for updates. > > 2 - the only difference between server profiles and the base profile > is USE="+snmp" and maybe one other flag USE="-perl -python snmp truetype xml" > > 3 - there isn't any general consensus on what makes a server, as such > there isn't any consensus on how to make server profiles more useful. Just make the base profile as minimal as possible and people will be happy. > > ... i think that's about it? > > PS: +1 from me. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iF4EAREIAAYFAlD2tjQACgkQ2ugaI38ACPDGbwEAr4WGmtio2d+uWTkroEGCbu4U > 53GdR5R3A4Fti8UXzj8A/iM805vMnkojNTNGw8b5XYVXPbYrZ9TJ4GPp0onE8AK8 > =6Lja > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Doug Goldstein
