Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 01:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 01:48:22 William Kenworthy wrote:
> > rattus ~ # eselect profile list
> > Available profile symlink targets:
> >   [1]   default/linux/x86/10.0 *
> >   [2]   default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop
> >   [3]   default/linux/x86/10.0/developer
> >   [4]   default/linux/x86/10.0/server
> >   [5]   hardened/linux/x86/10.0
> >   [6]   selinux/2007.0/x86
> >   [7]   selinux/2007.0/x86/hardened
> >   [8]   selinux/v2refpolicy/x86
> >   [9]   selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/desktop
> >   [10]  selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/developer
> >   [11]  selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/hardened
> >   [12]  selinux/v2refpolicy/x86/server
> > rattus ~ #
> 
> In almost all cases [2] or [4] is a better choice than [1]
> 
> 
> 

I wouldnt think so - I have a lot of server apps and desktop apps, even
on my laptop and main server at home.  I dont have such a thing as a
pure server or a pure desktop so I stuck with this.  I did change to
desktop once on my laptop and didnt like the number of changes I would
need to revert so didnt proceed.  I my personal opinion is that having
developer, server and desktop profiles for gentoo is just stupid.
redhat/Mandrake etc have had this for a long time and they just are a
way to start customising the system - dont save much at all.  

I guess the question is where do you start customising from? - a
desktop, a server or gentoo 1.1b circa 1999 (if memory serves me
correctly) which is where some of my systems (including the one above)
started :)


BillK