Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: removing "server" profile variants from profiles.desc

["Gregory M. Turner" <gmt@malth.us>]

On 10/11/2012 3:31 PM, Ben Kohler wrote:
> There are other ways to achieve a "lighter" system, but that's not really
> what this is about.  The server profiles are not any lighter than the base
> profiles.
>
> To those in favor of keeping some kind of "server" profile around, how
> would it differ from the base profile?  What would you enable or disable on
> top of the base?  I am pretty sure that the current USE="-perl -python snmp
> truetype xml" is not what any of you would suggest.
>
> In my opinion, removing /usr/portage/profiles/targets/server/make.defaults
> and having the "server" target apply nothing over the base profiles, and
> then dropping the warning from the server profiles, would be a better
> situation than where we are now.
>
> -Ben

That seems pretty reasonable.

Another possibility, I suppose, would be to combine Rich's idea with 
yours and get:

   base -> minimal -> server (noop)

Also super-easy if we just build the above cascade, take what's in 
server, move it into minimal, git rid of the awful warning, and call it 
fixed.

At least by clarifying what is meant by "server", we might inspire 
someone to contribute more enhancements later.

Kind of the opposite of your original proposal, Ben :P

At least we've established broad consensus that the warning should be 
silenced.

-gmt