Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is it possible to move from hardened profile?

[Tanstaafl]

On 2012-01-14 5:25 PM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
> On 01/14/2012 04:56 PM, walt wrote:
>> On 01/14/2012 01:05 PM, czernitko wrote:
>>> Hello, I wonder whether it is possible to convert hardened desktop
>>> box into box with non-hardened profile? I guess I would have to
>>> recompile world with vanilla compiler (no hardening) and compile
>>> gentoo-sources kernel (no prob with those), but how can I get clean,
>>> non-hardened profile for portage (if it is even possible)?
>>
>> Short answer:  I have no idea :)  But I'd like to ask why you want to
>> dump the hardened profile.  Is there a significant disadvantage to
>> the hardening?  I've been wanting for awhile to try hardening but I'm
>> basically to lazy to Just Do It(TM).

> Virtualization is iffy if you're not careful which options you enable in
> the kernel.

I've been meaning to as a similar (but reverse) question - which I'll do 
in a separate thread later, but...

Your reference to 'virtualizationis iffy' above... do you mean if you 
are going to run VMs on a hardened HOST? Or run a hardened machine as a 
VM? I had a problem trying to switch my Linode VM to the hardened 
profile, and ended up giving up on it...