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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:53:43
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41EXXq=yxu00J1MoyC-nu-oziAfW1cgF4Vkeab1VYQALQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc by Rich Freeman
1 On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
3 >> +1. I want these profiles to *staty*. I am using this profile on my
4 >> "home boxes". It is the most minimal profile as the rest of the
5 >> profiles pull in too much useless stuff. What is wrong with these
6 >> profiles anyway?
7 >
8 > Looking at the actual profiles themselves, using server vs the base
9 > profile makes these changes:
10 > USE="-perl -python snmp truetype xml"
11 >
12
13 perl and python have not been enabled in the default/linux profile for
14 some time now:
15
16 RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults,v
17
18 revision 1.15
19 date: 2011-10-05 15:22:13 -0400; author: darkside; state: Exp;
20 lines: +2 -2; commitid: 2e764e8cae624567;
21 Remove USE={python,perl} from default profile, as discussed/announced.
22 Bug 250179
23
24 Disabling those flags in the server profile is redundant.

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