2009/9/15 Tom Hendrikx <tom@...>:
> Hi,
>
> As of today, portage notifies me that my current profile (hardened/x86)
> is deprecated, and that "hardened/linux/x86/10.0" is the suggested
> replacement.
>
> A few months ago, there was some traffic on this list regarding
> profiles, resulting in the conclusion that "hardened/x86" was to be
> preferred above the default as set (by releng?) in the hardened stages:
> "hardened/linux/x86", as the latter was not approved or checked by the
> hardened project.
>
> How does the new profile differ from hardened/x86, and is the new
> profile tested/approved by the hardened project?
AFAIK the profile was aproved, but you'd better wait for a developer
to confirm this.

I didn't find many differences, just a few USEs enabled (I remind
python, perl and a few more) and the nls USE disabled. Anyway I
suppose other people can give you a more detailed explanation. Also, a
bug related with ld and the lirc package has been fixed.