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On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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<rafaelmartins@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Am 29.10.2010 14:13, schrieb Petteri Räty: |
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>>> On 29.10.2010 15.02, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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>>>>> 2) Furthermore I would like to drop the following use flags from default |
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>>>>> IUSE |
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>>>>> -apache2 |
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>>>>> -ldap |
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>>>> |
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>>>>> A minimal server installation does requires neither apache2 nor ldap |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Although one can install a server without apache or ldap, I'd say the |
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>>>> server profile seems the natural choice to have them enabled. |
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>>>> If we had the statistics for it, we could check how many people have |
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>>>> apache installed with that profile vs not having it. As there's nothing |
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>>>> preventing one from having USE="-apache2 -ldap" when required and I |
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>>>> don't use the server profiles, I don't really have a strong opinion |
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>>>> about this. |
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>>> |
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>>> And enabling a use flag should be question of is it wanted when a |
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>>> package actually support those flags. On a server when you are |
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>>> installing a package with a apache use flag it's certainly possible to |
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>>> you would like to have it enabled more often than not. |
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>>> Regards, |
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>>> Petteri |
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>> Which raises the question, if those people, who want to install a minimal server will mostly use |
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>> apache or something different. And especially for minimal setups, i dont think that apache will be |
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>> the first choice, so i agree with the removal of those USE flags from default IUSE. |
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>> The profile is intended to have a minimal set of flags, i would call apache an additional optional |
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>> flag, not a default option for minimal server setups. |
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> Totally agreed! |
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> Best regards. |
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> -- |
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> Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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> Gentoo Linux developer |
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> http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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I use the server profile and I would also like a minimal set of use flags. |
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I don't think you need to force sysadmins, that know what they want, |
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to have those flags. |
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Regards, |
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Kfir |
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