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Patrick, lack of server support in the profiles is the bane of my existence. |
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Thank you for starting to address it. |
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I would prefer for it to be kept as simple and stripped down, as possible. |
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Particularly get rid of all of the USE flags that end up pulling in |
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X/gnome/multimedia related packages without manually editing portage |
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related files. Don't assume all users want to use all things by default, |
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pam and gpm, for examples. |
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Here is my list of USE flags present in the 2006.0 profile that don't belong |
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in a basic server profile: |
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X alsa apache2 apm arts avi bitmap-fonts cups eds emboss encode esd |
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foomaticdb gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ |
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libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ogg opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python |
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qt quicktime readline sdl spell truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis |
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xmms xv |
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Any competent server administrator should know to select which apache they |
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want, which additional flags to add for php, and so on. |
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As far as the hardened, I would prefer separate profiles be created for |
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them. Not everyone who runs servers knows how to use them :) |
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And finally, mask out php5 and newer versions of mysql until they work with |
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the majority of packages in portage :) |
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