Brian Harring wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:50:58PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>On Wednesday 24 August 2005 08:04 pm, Brian Harring wrote: >> >>>Again, returning to the USE="-*" arguement, yes, they can go that >>>route. It's also kind of a crappy arguement dodging out of the fact that >>>progressive bloat going into what is effectively a base release >>>profile, when subprofiles would be better suited. >> >>not sure what you mean by 'progressive bloat' ... most of those flags have >>been there since before i was a dev (so like before the 1.2 release) >> >>the default profile has always been a 'desktop' target and really i think >>that's OK by me > > Reasons against sticking a level of indirection in? > More then willing to assume I've been a tool and missed it, but with > cascaded profiles there really isn't a good arguement against tagging > a level in so that anyone after it can just use minimal, or derive a > server profile off of it.
Generally the hardened profile has been considered the most 'server' based profile we have. Granted, if you don't want the extra goodies you get with a hardened system, that is an issue, but this is one option we have. I look at their profile as a great model for the server end of things. -- Lance Albertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: <http://www.ramereth.net/lance.asc> Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net
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