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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: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:30:45
Message-Id: 20101102203022.GA12126@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles by Peter Volkov
1 On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:41:34PM +0300, Peter Volkov wrote:
2 > В Вск, 31/10/2010 в 16:38 +0200, Alex Alexander пишет:
3 > > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote:
4 > > > On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote:
5 > > > > Isn't this essentially what the default profile is? Basically server is
6 > > > > just default + USE="apache2 ldap mysql snmp truetype xml".
7 > > > Well it shouldn't be like that. And if the default profile is pretty
8 > > > much the same as the server one, then please consider removing the
9 > > > server profile as it makes no sense then
10 > >
11 > > Please don't. The fact that there are only a few changes doesn't make it
12 > > useless. Also, you'd be forcing all users currently using the profile to
13 > > migrate without any real reason.
14 >
15 > But what is the target group of this profile? It sets only 6 USE flags
16 > that are really useless on half of servers (e.g. VPN/mail server). I'd
17 > better set only -perl -python there to make servers less dependent on
18 > python/perl updaters and decrease rebuilds for servers. Also it's good
19 > idea to make them hardened only as hardened works very well for
20 > servers.
21 >
22 > --
23 > Peter.
24 >
25 >
26
27 Attached you may find my final proposal for server profiles.
28
29 --
30 Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
31 Gentoo Linux Developer
32 Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
33 Key ID: 441AC410
34 Key FP: AAD0 8591 E3CD 445D 6411 3477 F7F7 1E8E 441A C410

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Changes in server profiles "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>