On Monday 20 July 2009 18:33:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 20 July 2009 17:49:00 Dirk Uys wrote: > > Hi everyone > > > > I'm busy installing Gentoo on a local server. I'm using > > "default/linux/amd64/2008.0/server" as the profile. I noticed that I > > get a nice little warning every time I emerge a package saying that > > the profile is untested. > > > > My main concern for using the current server profile is to get a > > minimal install, not security. Should I be using a different profile > > (like hardened) or is the one I'm using fine? > > > > Regards > > Dirk Uys > > Set I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING to anything other than "yes" in root's profile > and the error will go away. I don't believe the warnings are in any way > dangerous, to get a minimal install it will have removed USE flags and not > installed any services (as opposed to adding stuff the make things > minimal). Issues can be fixed by enabling the USE flags you do want.
Keep in mind that the server profile will try to pull in some USE that you probably don't want in a minimal installation (such as mysql, apache, etc.) --- TopperH
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