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From: Ben Munat <bent@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Ideas for a server profile?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:22:11
Message-Id: 440559A1.2080704@munat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Re: Ideas for a server profile? by "Michael Stewart (vericgar)"
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3 Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote:
4 > MIkey wrote:
5 >
6 >>X alsa apache2 apm arts avi bitmap-fonts cups eds emboss encode esd
7 >>foomaticdb gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++
8 >>libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ogg opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python
9 >>qt quicktime readline sdl spell truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis
10 >>xmms xv
11 >>
12 >>Any competent server administrator should know to select which apache they
13 >>want, which additional flags to add for php, and so on.
14 >
15 >
16 > I disagree about removing the apache2 flag. The flag is not used to
17 > select which version of apache to install (portage installs 2.0 by
18 > default as it's the highest stable version), but for the modules that
19 > can support apache-1.3 or apache-2.0. If the apache2 flag is not set,
20 > and someone tries installing a module that supports both, the module
21 > will depend on apache-1.3 (even if apache-2.0 is already installed) -
22 > the modules uses the USE-flag to determine which version to depend on.
23 >
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