Re: [gentoo-dev] removing the server profiles...

[Panagiotis Christopoulos]

On 22:14 Wed 16 Jan     , Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2013, 00:36:18 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> OK, I consider this consensus enough.
>
> ...
>
> Being the one that does the work, the server profiles are disappearing in
> 13.0.
>

Err, ok, so now guys, we 're offering a base profile* with dri, cups, gmp,
fortran and pppd(?) enabled, at the same time openmp enabled but threads
disabled, no sockets, no caps no apache2 or mysql that I would probably
want if I wanted to build a server box etc. and we officially drop the
server profiles (which is true, they're unmaintained for ages). 

I've been devaway for long, probably this was discussed in the past (as
Ian (axs) pointed out), but am I the only one who finds it a little wrong? Don't
get me wrong on my example, above. Eg. I love fortran, however I don't know why I should
build it on every gcc update if I don't use it in my server (of course I
can disabled it, yes I know). 

Many have said that a "server" is something very generic, so is
"desktop". I think profiles were invented to make things easier and
safer for users, so now we 're doing it for "desktop" users but people
who want to build a server box have to scratch their heads from the
first moment. I'm fine with that if our community is fine with that. 

I'm not blaming anyone, as the server profiles are useless atm, it was the
right call to remove them. I'm just wondering if this happened because they
were not maintained properly or because we really don't need them. 

Panagiotis

* I took as example the base default/linux/amd64/10.0 .

ps. I'll try find the old discussions which may help me understand
things better.

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Panagiotis Christopoulos ( pchrist )
    ( Gentoo Lisp Project )