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

[Ben Kohler <bkohler@gmail.com>]

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This is why I said that the server profile are no lighter than the base.
 It's actually the base PLUS "snmp truetype xml".

My original suggestion of hiding or removing the server profiles was based
on the assumption that no one wants to maintain it.  The server profiles
*in their current state* are silly & undesirable, in my view.  The server
target has not been touched in almost 2 years, and most of the people using
it are doing so based on false assumptions.

If it is to remain in its current state, I think it should at least be
removed from the .desc listing.  If we have a plan to make the server
profiles useful again, as a purposeful set of flags applied against the
base, then keeping these profiles listed is great.  I would use a server
profile myself, in such case.

-Ben

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> >> +1. I want these profiles to *staty*. I am using this profile on my
> >> "home boxes". It is the most minimal profile as the rest of the
> >> profiles pull in too much useless stuff. What is wrong with these
> >> profiles anyway?
> >
> > Looking at the actual profiles themselves, using server vs the base
> > profile makes these changes:
> > USE="-perl -python snmp truetype xml"
> >
>
> perl and python have not been enabled in the default/linux profile for
> some time now:
>
> RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/default/linux/make.defaults,v
>
> revision 1.15
> date: 2011-10-05 15:22:13 -0400;  author: darkside;  state: Exp;
> lines: +2 -2;  commitid: 2e764e8cae624567;
> Remove USE={python,perl} from default profile, as discussed/announced.
> Bug 250179
>
> Disabling those flags in the server profile is redundant.
>
>

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