Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

[Willie Wong]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:07:33AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> Does [1] default/linux/x86/10.0 from 'eselect profile list' amount
> to a "minimal" install (no X)? If so, is there any reason not to
> switch to it instead of setting -vlc, and then later when actually
> ready to enable X, switching back to kde?

There's no big harm, except that you may end up rebuilding a bunch of
packages. One way to get a lot of hands-on control on precisely what
USE you want it via the "-*" flag. But be VERY careful if you are
going to use it. A USE variable set in /etc/make.conf starting with it

  USE="-* X vim ..."

will use nothing but those variables (plus the package specific ones
specified in /etc/portage). There are certain flags that you most
likely don't want to turn off: cxx, posix, and threads for example. 

It is a powerful tool; which means you can also seriously hurt
yourself from it. 

Note that the profiles are not "only if" things. You can still run
the KDE desktop without being on the KDE profile. You should think of
the profile as a default bundle that the developers think you may like
if you want to use KDE. You can of course completely customise it just
from the default/linux/x86/10.0 profile. So if you start your system
on this profile, and build it up to your liking, there's no need to
switch over to the KDE profile. 

>
> What is the [7] hardened/linux/x86 profile, or better yet, the
> incantation to get descriptions descriptions of all the available
> targets?

hardened is maintained by the gentoo hardened project
  http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/

If this is a desktop you probably don't want to use it. And SELinux
you can just google to find out. 

W

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