Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 19, reloaded (again)

[Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org>]

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 7:33 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> While I don't care about tarball vs. rsync (both don't matter that much
> to me) I don't think a profile is a solution. It would contain too many
> packages. Further it would still need maintenance for new packages as
> packages that are not pinned in the profile are available freely

I don't believe the object here is to put every package in the tree in the 
profiles.   That's unrealistic to maintain, I agree.   

What should be in the profiles:  system packages (libc, cc, kernel, etc), 
KDE, Gnome, dependencies and other commonly-used app packages (apache, 
php, etc).  We start with a basic collection of packages we know everyone 
uses, and add to the profiles as folks complain about missing items.  
(This is where having voting in Bugzilla would be handy).

Bottom line, "Enterprise Gentoo" would consist of whatever is in those 
profiles, which means they are thoroughly tested, supported.   People can 
use packages not in the profile at their discretion, perhaps locking 
versions in /etc/portage.   However packages don't get the same treatment 
& testing unless it's in an enterprise profile, and hence they aren't 
supported the same.

We need to discuss the kinds of profiles we'd like to create (for different 
roles)  ... e.g., workstation, firewall, webserver, fileserver, cluster, 
etc.  This would, I believe, fit into the Installer project without any 
extra effort.

Also Kurt proposed a schedule of one release per year I believe.  I tend to 
think we can manage two (every 6 months), particularly early on as we need 
to get a feel of what people want/expect.  

Cheers,
Dylan Carlson [absinthe@gentoo.org]
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