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"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@××××××××××.net> posted |
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200702261742.05685.bss03@××××××××××.net, excerpted below, on Mon, 26 Feb |
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2007 17:41:59 -0600: |
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> On Monday 26 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote |
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> about 'Re: [gentoo-desktop] Openssh really needed in desktop |
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> profiles?': |
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>> In other words, Release Engineering wouldn't make a profile that |
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>> *removes* things from base, unless it was incompatible, such as |
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>> removing a package which isn't available due to an incompatibility. |
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> Okay, that makes sense. But, I don't really think virtual/ssh should be |
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> in the most fundamental profile either. It's simply not that essential |
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> for a running Gentoo system. |
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That was my original point. It's not essential for a generic Gentoo |
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system, so it shouldn't be in the profile for a generic Gentoo system. |
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>> We have a |
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>> simple rule, as things go to the right in our profiles, they go more |
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>> specific, and are additive from the parent. |
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> I like that rule. |
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Agreed. |
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>> The *only* way we would |
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>> remove virtual/ssh from the desktop profile would mean removing it from |
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>> base, then moving it to every single leaf profile *except* the desktop |
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>> ones. |
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> Or perhaps, only the few where ssh is part of the system packages like |
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> server-specific profiles, no need to maintain the status quo when you |
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> are already make a change of the same scope. |
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That was what I had in mind. |
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If not now, maybe when profiles get multi-inheritance? |
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>From the dev list, I see Chris G is working on multi-inheritance |
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/experimentally/ for this release. Once it can be added to a single |
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"server" profile that all the various archs can inherit, then it would be |
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a simple matter of taking it out of one place and putting it in one |
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other. Of course, even if multi-inheritance gets in 2007.0, it'll be |
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some time before all the cascading profiles are fully deprecated and |
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removed from the tree, so... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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