[gentoo-user] Re: USE=X

[James]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> There's nothing magic about a profile. All it does is set a bunch of
> variables and possibly specify some extra apps to be merged. It's a
> convenience, and there's nothing to stop you from finding out what those
> variables are and adding them to USE yourself, and adding the packages
> to world yourself.

Agreed. Better to set (configure for) a flag twice than not at all....



> For hardened, there is no hardened desktop profile. Apparently that was
> a world of pain for the devs. Adding desktop software to a hardened
> system is easy, hardening a desktop system is harder. So I'd say chose a
> hardened profile, then add X to USE and merge your choice of WM/DE

Sure, I'd go the full blown SeLinux route if I want/needed each app
secured. Maybe SVEN will start with SeLinux config opens for each app
that needs it? Or a ansible_after_the_install_file ?   Too much for 
me to contemplate for now.  Pentoo is coming along quite nicely....

What I'm really looking for is a  sane approach to flags on a myriad of 
systems that I plan to install, manage and dynamically modify via
ansible. Ansible_fever is taking control over my thoughts and actions....

I'm going to start a new thread as this line of thinking has me
looking for a logical way to sanely manage a myriad of gentoo systems
flags for a large variety of (gentoo) systems. Save your ideas, a new
thread is being formulated with some other issues mixed in....

> [1] When wayland becomes a first-class Linux citizen, this will likely
> change

Yep, but that's being avoided by me for now, as I think that puppy 
(Weyland) is going to a difficult roll out to say the least....
  


thx,
James