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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> sounds like something to fix rather than punt.  i don't know why you think
> having server profiles is "undesirable", but i certainly desire it on many
> systems.  like servers.  the desktop and developer profiles are not
> appropriate.

I think the base profiles generally are appropriate.  Most of the
stuff that I'd consider a value-add on ANY server is already in the
base profile.  Maybe if we dropped ssh from system then having it in a
server profile would make sense.

When I build server-like installs I just use the generic profile as a
starting point.  Servers could do anything.  The software on a LAMP is
going to be way different than the software on a mail server or a DNS
server.  And, if I am going to run a mail server I might want any of
14 varieties of mail-related services.

I could see some use for profiles if they were maintained and designed
so that you could pick the profile, do an emerge -uDN world, and end
up with a "just works" server.  However, that would likely mean having
dozens of them, and unless somebody wants to maintain them I don't see
the point.

Rich