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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE="jpeg" not part of hardened/linux/x86 profile
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:26:57
Message-Id: CAEH5T2PHFXW6J2Sp-aYEO3iqO25LFNk4-WoSG3=mbT4wirWKog@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] USE="jpeg" not part of hardened/linux/x86 profile by Grant
1 On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > One of my desktops runs a hardened profile:
3 >
4 > # eselect profile list
5 > Available profile symlink targets:
6 >  [1]   default/linux/x86/10.0
7 >  [2]   default/linux/x86/10.0/selinux
8 >  [3]   default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop
9 >  [4]   default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome
10 >  [5]   default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde
11 >  [6]   default/linux/x86/10.0/developer
12 >  [7]   default/linux/x86/10.0/server
13 >  [8]   hardened/linux/x86 *
14 >  [9]   hardened/linux/x86/selinux
15 >
16 > I noticed USE="jpeg" is not enabled by default so I took a look around
17 > and noticed these:
18 >
19 > # locate hardened/linux/x86
20 > /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/x86/10.0
21 > /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/x86/desktop
22 > /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/x86/developer
23 > /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/x86/minimal
24 > /usr/portage/profiles/hardened/linux/x86/server
25 >
26 > Why can't I eselect a profile like hardened/linux/x86/desktop which
27 > would hopefully have more desktop-oriented USE defaults than
28 > hardened/linux/x86?
29
30 I have never used hardened and am not in any way informed about it,
31 but I seem to recall reading that hardened on desktop was not
32 supported and that it is primarily intended for use on servers.
33
34 Maybe that profile is masked. You may still be able to use it by
35 manually updating your profile symlink (rather than having eselect do
36 it for you).

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Re: [gentoo-user] USE="jpeg" not part of hardened/linux/x86 profile Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>