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From: Alex Alexander <wired@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:37:57
Message-Id: 20101031143809.GA8666@linuxized.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles by Markos Chandras
1 On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
3 > > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
4 > > > If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, who only want a minimum
5 > > > amount of default profile enabled USE flags (so no desktop profile because of that), but on the
6 > > > other side dont want to do the additional work/checks/reading for hardened profiles (which have much
7 > > > less profile enabled USE flags, but also have the special gcc, glibc and Kernel), basicly a profile,
8 > > > which does the same as hardened profile without the specific hardened bits.
9 > > >
10 > > >
11 > >
12 > > Isn't this essentially what the default profile is? Basically server is
13 > > just default + USE="apache2 ldap mysql snmp truetype xml".
14 > Well it shouldn't be like that. And if the default profile is pretty
15 > much the same as the server one, then please consider removing the
16 > server profile as it makes no sense then
17
18 Please don't. The fact that there are only a few changes doesn't make it
19 useless. Also, you'd be forcing all users currently using the profile to
20 migrate without any real reason.
21
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23 Alex Alexander | wired
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>