From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2bEs-0008IW-LL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:52:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84F3EE068F; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au (unknown [203.59.1.104]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2D2EE06B3 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:52:44 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAO3u5Up8qbHg/2dsb2JhbADZAIQ/BIJM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,629,1249228800"; d="scan'208";a="476635786" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.169.177.224]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 27 Oct 2009 09:52:41 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8D61B1D612 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:52:41 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MoFRPt1-Z4lc for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:52:38 +0800 (WST) Received: from [192.168.50.73] (unknown [192.168.50.73]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6AD1A34D6B for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:52:38 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile From: "W.Kenworthy" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200910270152.27090.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <87my3dohps.fsf@newsguy.com> <1256600902.19685.207.camel@rattus> <200910270152.27090.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth, Western Australia Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:52:37 +0800 Message-Id: <1256608357.10355.24.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1bc70ba0-6ff9-40a2-ba35-190cd238cc14 X-Archives-Hash: 6d7f7b1db3dde8689a54e97e711a7ab1 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