-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2013 08:12 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Panagiotis Christopoulos > <pchr...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 00:36 Wed 16 Jan , Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >>> several people have pointed out to me that the 10.0 -> 13.0 >>> transition would be a good moment to finally remove the (also >>> in my opinion rather useless) server profiles. >>> >> >> The server profiles are not useless, if we can maintain them, and >> if they actually are, nowadays, they shouldn't be. >> >> -1, unless other profile options being offered are "minimal" >> enough for the job and enabling certain things that someone may >> need in a server. > > The problem, I think, is that 'server' is a very generic thing. Am > I looking for a NAS? A SAN? A web server? A proxy server? An X11 > application server? A font server? VOIP? > > If people who use the server profile are looking for a minimalist > profile, I think they'd probably be best served with a profile > that's specifically designed for "we disable everything we can to > still wind up with a working stage 3. Enable what you need from > there." > > That also suggests a way to help automate maintenance; if building > a stage 3 with the minimal profile fails, then either the package > has a bug or the profile needs an update...with a strong bias > toward the former. >
Agreed. An extremely minimal profile would also interest those looking to learn the fundamentals of Gentoo or come from other distros that start with almost nothing. I'd certainly be interested in testing that profile on a separate machine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ9wwqAAoJEJUrb08JgYgH+o4H/394Ugp+Khdgmwn054QADhb9 pncIA+UPM5CkU6CfK3PAH8ZQShbU055Yc8mx9buraj1Ie+O8gJceZGGIkJNIzCDS iCUMfzcSpam6EF2Zj9FDWeKJLWOuX/i15fs+p30ITy27eq5RDasU4t7umhw1pUdX XkC4HGz9TDnHnjC9valfb7B7spuQuqngTnEf6IMosjVe0wMptRHozHaXvCnyoAWa db9zpJ8gOLWBRC7G4/826sif74i+WHIIq3Af+g3F5VhVpfrtfDA/1h8O0p/Oe9Nk FWU2bKjhZ/oPwSg90rrpOYcXhJBP+wQkpwtsWHA8OwgafeQ5Wgk+W5GQdg2BBJo= =ho30 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
