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