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On 01/16/2013 08:12 AM, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos |
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> <pchrist@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>>> several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 -> 13.0 |
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>>> transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also |
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>>> in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> The server profiles are not useless, if we can maintain them, and |
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>> if they actually are, nowadays, they shouldn't be. |
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>> -1, unless other profile options being offered are "minimal" |
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>> enough for the job and enabling certain things that someone may |
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>> need in a server. |
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> |
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> The problem, I think, is that 'server' is a very generic thing. Am |
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> I looking for a NAS? A SAN? A web server? A proxy server? An X11 |
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> application server? A font server? VOIP? |
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> |
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> If people who use the server profile are looking for a minimalist |
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> profile, I think they'd probably be best served with a profile |
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> that's specifically designed for "we disable everything we can to |
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> still wind up with a working stage 3. Enable what you need from |
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> there." |
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> That also suggests a way to help automate maintenance; if building |
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> a stage 3 with the minimal profile fails, then either the package |
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> has a bug or the profile needs an update...with a strong bias |
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> toward the former. |
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Agreed. An extremely minimal profile would also interest those looking |
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to learn the fundamentals of Gentoo or come from other distros that |
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start with almost nothing. I'd certainly be interested in testing that |
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profile on a separate machine. |
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