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On 16/01/13 08:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos 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 in |
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>> my opinion rather useless) server profiles. |
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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" enough |
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> for the job and enabling certain things that someone may need in a |
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> server. |
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Just to summarize the last massive thread on this: |
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1 - they aren't maintained; they haven't changed for years |
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2 - the only difference between server profiles and the base profile |
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is USE="+snmp" and maybe one other flag |
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3 - there isn't any general consensus on what makes a server, as such |
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there isn't any consensus on how to make server profiles more useful. |
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... i think that's about it? |
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PS: +1 from me. |
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