On 29.10.2010 15.02, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: > >> 2) Furthermore I would like to drop the following use flags from default >> IUSE > >> -apache2 >> -ldap > >> A minimal server installation does requires neither apache2 nor ldap > > Although one can install a server without apache or ldap, I'd say the > server profile seems the natural choice to have them enabled. > If we had the statistics for it, we could check how many people have > apache installed with that profile vs not having it. As there's nothing > preventing one from having USE="-apache2 -ldap" when required and I > don't use the server profiles, I don't really have a strong opinion > about this. >
And enabling a use flag should be question of is it wanted when a package actually support those flags. On a server when you are installing a package with a apache use flag it's certainly possible to you would like to have it enabled more often than not. Regards, Petteri
