Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles

[Markos Chandras]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 04:38:09PM +0200, Alex Alexander wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
> > > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
> > > > If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, who only want a minimum
> > > > amount of default profile enabled USE flags (so no desktop profile because of that), but on the
> > > > other side dont want to do the additional work/checks/reading for hardened profiles (which have much
> > > > less profile enabled USE flags, but also have the special gcc, glibc and Kernel), basicly a profile,
> > > > which does the same as hardened profile without the specific hardened bits.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Isn't this essentially what the default profile is?  Basically server is
> > > just default + USE="apache2 ldap mysql snmp truetype xml".
> > Well it shouldn't be like that. And if the default profile is pretty
> > much the same as the server one, then please consider removing the
> > server profile as it makes no sense then
>
> Please don't. The fact that there are only a few changes doesn't make it
> useless. Also, you'd be forcing all users currently using the profile to
> migrate without any real reason.
>
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You are missing the point here. My intention is to make server profiles
more "generic" for server usage and not optimised for ldap/web hosting
services


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