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From: Justin Bronder <jsbronder@g.o>
To: gentoo-science@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-science] Re: Gentoo Science next meeting agenda - 4) science profiles
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 17:42:17
Message-Id: 20101205174145.GC7472@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-science] Re: Gentoo Science next meeting agenda - 4) science profiles by Xarthisius
1 On 05/12/10 18:34 +0100, Xarthisius wrote:
2 > W dniu 05.12.2010 18:25, Justin Bronder pisze:
3 > > On 05/12/10 13:49 +0100, Kacper Kowalik wrote:
4 > >> I would like to involve cluster team here. We could *really* use
5 > >> seperate profiles for HPC at least, like hpc/server , hpc/node.
6 > >> Also, since it was already mentioned on #gentoo-dev, we could have
7 > >> "sci" profile with USE="fortran" and remove it from base.
8 > >> To my great amazement it seems that not everybody use Fortran on a
9 > >> daily basis :P
10 > >> Cheers,
11 > >> Kacper
12 > >>
13 > >>
14 > > I'm not sure why hpc would need specific profiles. Personally I just use
15 > > default/linux/${ARCH}/${VERSION} and build from there. The only additions
16 > > for a node that might be profile worthy are virtual/mpi and maybe
17 > > sys-cluster/torque. The same goes for hpc/server although some extra USE
18 > > flags could be enabled.
19 > I was rather thinking to have less. Default settings for 10.0:
20 > USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dri fortran gdbm
21 > gpm iconv ipv6 mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly
22 > openmp pam pcre perl pppd python readline session sse sse2 ssl sysfs
23 > tcpd unicode xorg zlib"
24 >
25 > cups, ipv6, perl, xorg, nls, pam, etc... do we need them?
26 > tbh I build up my clusters from "-*" because default is to bloated...
27 > Also setting things like FEATURES="nodoc noman noinfo nonews" would be
28 > nice on nodes.
29
30 Fair enough, I forgot I also have USE="-*" set :)
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33 Justin Bronder