Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-21 Thread Ben Kohler
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 11:27 PM, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 21 January 2013 12:16, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > >> I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be > >> much appreciated if they could respond here. > > > > I build catalyst stage4s. Any

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-20 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:27:18 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > On 21 January 2013 12:16, Peter Stuge wrote: > > Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > >> I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be > >> much appreciated if they could respond here. > > > > I build catalyst stage4s. An

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-20 Thread Ben de Groot
On 21 January 2013 12:16, Peter Stuge wrote: > Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: >> I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be >> much appreciated if they could respond here. > > I build catalyst stage4s. Any default profiles are kindof pointless > for me; I have USE=-* and t

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > I don't build server machines every day, others do and it would be > much appreciated if they could respond here. I build catalyst stage4s. Any default profiles are kindof pointless for me; I have USE=-* and the flags that I want. Anything else seems a bit too r

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-20 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 23:47 Sat 19 Jan , Walter Dnes wrote: > ... > On a lark, I once tried the "default/linux/x86/10.0" profile for a > re-install on my netbook without "-*". I soon ended up with more "-" > entries in make.conf and package.use, than I have add-on entries when > using "-*". And I was only ha

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-19 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 07:09:29AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote > On Jan 17, 2013 3:35 AM, "Dirkjan Ochtman" wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes > wrote: > > > If someone wants a *REALLY* basic system, they can start off with > > > USE="-*" and add on stuff as necessary when

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 19/01/13 05:47 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > Actually, that is what I would expect from the more "basic" > oriented ones like Arch and Debian. Printer support should be an > optional add-on, not part of the basic install. Maybe I'm too > idealistic...

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 18:26, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> >> People who do have printers can always enable it themselves. I don't >> see any reason for cups to be enabled by default, especially not on a >> minimal profile, and that includes the simple

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > > People who do have printers can always enable it themselves. I don't > see any reason for cups to be enabled by default, especially not on a > minimal profile, and that includes the simple desktop profile. The kde > and gnome profiles are ex

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-19 Thread Ben de Groot
On 19 January 2013 08:01, Christopher Head wrote: > I understand that enabling flags only affects packages if they’re > installed. I’m just saying that, in my opinion, sane-but-minimal should > have CUPS disabled because there are plenty of computers that would > want LibreOffice and/or Chromium i

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-18 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:02:48 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > We might be talking past each other. Sane but minimal is the target. > > Bottom line is that the question isn't whether a minimal system should > have CUPS installed (that would be an argument for putting it in > @system - ugh!). The que

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-18 Thread Joshua Saddler
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:36:18 +0100 "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: > > Hi, > > 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 easiest way to do this would be to

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Markos Chandras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/17/2013 08:02 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Head > wrote: >> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:32:01 -0500 Rich Freeman >> wrote: >> >>> Sure, I can think of reasons why I would want chromium with >>> -cups, but

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Head wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:32:01 -0500 > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Sure, I can think of reasons why I would want chromium with -cups, but >> the whole point is to target the TYPICAL user. And the context here >> is servers - how many servers

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Christopher Head
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:32:01 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > Sure, I can think of reasons why I would want chromium with -cups, but > the whole point is to target the TYPICAL user. And the context here > is servers - how many servers would have chromium installed with > -cups? If anything I'd expec

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Christopher Head wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:17:26 -0500 > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> Oh, and keep in mind that flags really only have an effect if the >> corresponding packages are actually installed. For example, the cups >> flag doesn't really have an effect

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Christopher Head
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:17:26 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > Oh, and keep in mind that flags really only have an effect if the > corresponding packages are actually installed. For example, the cups > flag doesn't really have an effect unless you install apps that do > printing, so it seems pretty sa

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Zac Medico
On 01/17/2013 12:32 AM, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: > On 1/16/2013 11:32, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> Other option: kill the server subprofiles, keep profiles/target/server >> and let people finally set /etc/make.profile as a dir and play with >> multiple inheritance. We don't need dozens of subprofiles wi

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-17 Thread Michael Mol
On Jan 17, 2013 3:35 AM, "Dirkjan Ochtman" wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > If someone wants a *REALLY* basic system, they can start off with > > USE="-*" and add on stuff as necessary when portage complains and/or > > ebuilds break. That's what I'd recommend

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > my 2ct: > * dri and cups should probably be moved to desktop profile > * pppd is a local useflag and should be enabled by default in the capi ebuild Definitely agree. Can we make these changes? Cheers, Dirkjan

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-17 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > If someone wants a *REALLY* basic system, they can start off with > USE="-*" and add on stuff as necessary when portage complains and/or > ebuilds break. That's what I'd recommend to someone wanting to set up a > "basic server" machine. Yea

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-17 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 1/16/2013 11:32, Alexis Ballier wrote: Other option: kill the server subprofiles, keep profiles/target/server and let people finally set /etc/make.profile as a dir and play with multiple inheritance. We don't need dozens of subprofiles with only eapi and parent files in them... A. I would lo

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: > Err, ok, so now guys, we 're offering a base profile* with dri, cups, gmp, > fortran and pppd(?) enabled, at the same time openmp enabled but threads > disabled, no sockets, no caps no apache2 or mysql that I would probably > want

Re: How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:59:11AM +0100, Andreas K. Huettel wrote > Sure a server is something generic, too. However, since you mentioned > mysql above, how about a postgres server? Or a web server using a > daemon different from apache? :) > > This is why I think (as others) a server profile

How a proper server profile should look like (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...)

2013-01-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
I think we agree that the last state of the server profiles was not useful. So let's discuss what would be useful. For the medium-term future, not for this current step now. > > Err, ok, so now guys, we 're offering a base profile* with dri, cups, gmp, > fortran and pppd(?) enabled, at the sam

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
On 22:14 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2013, 00:36:18 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > OK, I consider this consensus enough. > > ... > > Being the one that does the work, the server profiles are disappearing in > 13.0. > Err, ok, so now guys, we 're offerin

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2013, 00:36:18 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel: > Hi, > > 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. > OK, I consider this consensus enough. [One

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > As has been pointed out previously, the "base" profile does not set > USE="perl python", so negating those flags in the server profile does > basically nothing. If certain packages have IUSE="+perl +python" it > might make a difference, but I

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Daniel Campbell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2013 08:12 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:32 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 woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: >> 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" > As has been pointed out

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Matthew Thode
On 01/16/2013 01:18 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > 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 > transiti

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Doug Goldstein
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius 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 >>> transiti

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Ben de Groot
On 16 January 2013 22:16, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > We have a base profile, we have a desktop profile... wouldn't that make > the base the minimal profile that would likely be fit for a server? If > not, we really should move that way. Having a base, desktop, and server > profile seems si

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Alexis Ballier
Other option: kill the server subprofiles, keep profiles/target/server and let people finally set /etc/make.profile as a dir and play with multiple inheritance. We don't need dozens of subprofiles with only eapi and parent files in them... A.

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-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 opini

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2013 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:32 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. >

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Panagiotis Christopoulos
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-16 Thread Markos Chandras
On 16 January 2013 04:20, Sergey Popov wrote: > 16.01.2013 03:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> 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 easie

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-15 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/15/13 3:36 PM, 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 easiest way to do this would be to > * just not copy the server p

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-15 Thread Sergey Popov
16.01.2013 03:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > Hi, > > 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 easiest way to do this would be to > * just not copy t

Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-15 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 16/01/13 01:36, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: Hi, 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 easiest way to do this would be to * just not copy the server profiles f

[gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

2013-01-15 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Hi, 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 easiest way to do this would be to * just not copy the server profiles from 10.0 to 13.0 and * have the deprecatio