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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:50:28
Message-Id: 20101031115001.GA9311@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles by Richard Freeman
1 On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
2 > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote:
3 > > If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, who only want a minimum
4 > > amount of default profile enabled USE flags (so no desktop profile because of that), but on the
5 > > other side dont want to do the additional work/checks/reading for hardened profiles (which have much
6 > > less profile enabled USE flags, but also have the special gcc, glibc and Kernel), basicly a profile,
7 > > which does the same as hardened profile without the specific hardened bits.
8 > >
9 > >
10 >
11 > Isn't this essentially what the default profile is? Basically server is
12 > just default + USE="apache2 ldap mysql snmp truetype xml".
13 Well it shouldn't be like that. And if the default profile is pretty
14 much the same as the server one, then please consider removing the
15 server profile as it makes no sense then
16 >
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19 Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles Alex Alexander <wired@g.o>