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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Alex Alexander <wired@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:50:02AM +0000, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 10:59:08PM -0400, Richard Freeman wrote: |
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>> > On 10/30/2010 08:10 AM, Thomas Sachau wrote: |
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>> > > If i remember it right, the server profile was created for those people, who only want a minimum |
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>> > > amount of default profile enabled USE flags (so no desktop profile because of that), but on the |
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>> > > other side dont want to do the additional work/checks/reading for hardened profiles (which have much |
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>> > > less profile enabled USE flags, but also have the special gcc, glibc and Kernel), basicly a profile, |
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>> > > which does the same as hardened profile without the specific hardened bits. |
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>> > Isn't this essentially what the default profile is? Basically server is |
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>> > just default + USE="apache2 ldap mysql snmp truetype xml". |
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>> Well it shouldn't be like that. And if the default profile is pretty |
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>> much the same as the server one, then please consider removing the |
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>> server profile as it makes no sense then |
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> Please don't. The fact that there are only a few changes doesn't make it |
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> useless. Also, you'd be forcing all users currently using the profile to |
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> migrate without any real reason. |
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We don't really delete profiles (maybe once every few years...) We |
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could opt to mark the server target deprecated and not update it |
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anymore. |
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-A |
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