Re: [gentoo-releng] Feature Requests for 2006.1

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 14:27 -0500, solar wrote:
> You cant really do a server profile so far nested within the
> default-linux profiles. The flags will be just wrong.

Have you verified this or are you just assuming?

> Also a server is not something you should be switching profiles every 6
> months.

This I definitely agree with, with the exception that I am specifically
looking to create a profile set that *is* changed every release.  The
main difference here would be that profiles would be deprecated/removed
at a *much* slower rate.

> If you are serious about a server profile I'd suggest dropping what you
> are thinking now. Lets have a meeting (hardened + server + infra +
> releng ) folks and do it right together.

I'm not sure what either Infra or Hardened would have to do with
"default-linux" stuff, except that their input would be very valued as
they would be experienced in these matters.  I have no problem with
having some sort of meeting.  My primary reason for the profile is to
keep all of the "cruft" from dev-lang/php out of the desktop profiles
and to keep the gnome and kde stuff out of the server profile.  I *know*
that they're not perfect or even what is necessarily desired, which was
the point of including all of the profile stuff in the original email.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux