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Am 30.10.2010 03:37, schrieb Donnie Berkholz: |
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> On 15:46 Fri 29 Oct , Thomas Sachau wrote: |
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>> Which raises the question, if those people, who want to install a |
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>> minimal server will mostly use apache or something different. And |
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>> especially for minimal setups, i dont think that apache will be the |
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>> first choice, so i agree with the removal of those USE flags from |
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>> default IUSE. The profile is intended to have a minimal set of flags, |
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>> i would call apache an additional optional flag, not a default option |
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>> for minimal server setups. |
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> I'm not sure when this transition happened, as profile USE flags have |
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> traditionally been a reasonable default set rather than a minimal set. |
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> This gives people who don't have much experience with Gentoo a decent |
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> chance at getting a working system on their first try. For people who |
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> have more experience, it's not exactly difficult to change things. |
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If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, who only want a minimum |
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amount of default profile enabled USE flags (so no desktop profile because of that), but on the |
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other side dont want to do the additional work/checks/reading for hardened profiles (which have much |
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less profile enabled USE flags, but also have the special gcc, glibc and Kernel), basicly a profile, |
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which does the same as hardened profile without the specific hardened bits. |
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