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


On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Gregory M. Turner <gmt@malth.us> wrote:

> On 10/11/2012 1:04 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 03:22:17PM -0400, Mike Frysinger 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.
>>>
>>
>> If you want a light
>> profile, I suggest doing what I do... start your USE variable in
>> make.conf with "-*", and add any flags you need, either in package.use or
>> in make.conf.
>>
>
> <popcorn>
>
> -gmt
>
>
>