From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KysJm-0000mT-0w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:13:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F8DBE033C; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:13:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.171]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A02E033C for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so93218ugs.39 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:13:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=DofNkcPB7AUaprRHqpYrZECYWRWEEoQm7UcZZwCyQ2c=; b=MEXxLHn24cl0A3Cht4CofvUlQG0kvEvXA8tjxDQEwqMvBsT8UBmCRVqcEh9s/5RHnd ft7TQQMvv4yFfcmLZGp5BLmq/J5VbZv/73INQPyVq3wRk4pEHQ7eu9IYmiF6Ok8lk81A x+dmRDxvTpsirobZT/ZI3zCqvYryk0Q9DrYcw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=fdXp41ls1P+fSMLeOMg7xwVBFWVVUUbSrZtD/soMIEiYHiWaI36ND7tojHt6oM8PEX ADmulS4ap2txCGXkhUE/rDhsawqN53VweQ8flR1PmbWGZvpXu9pqdlHjXSro4qx2sXk+ EDFQx73gN0bYawyTlc+ohPeFERlyJnbK2nLOQ= Received: by 10.66.234.8 with SMTP id g8mr619320ugh.41.1226168031948; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:13:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.5? (dsl-243-211-235.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.211.235]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m38sm1026712ugd.51.2008.11.08.10.13.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:13:50 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] desktop & sever profiles; was: Re: jpg support Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 20:13:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4915B683.6090405@googlemail.com> <3BEB556D-CEF7-4B04-A354-A487E8BB5F04@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3BEB556D-CEF7-4B04-A354-A487E8BB5F04@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811082013.42298.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2213cb9b-00ed-442c-a9ca-2a5a3030b18a X-Archives-Hash: 8c4ab314abe7edf57ff07e46070cb15d On Saturday 08 November 2008 19:13:15 Stroller wrote: > > ... if you use Gentoo on a desktop enable the > > desktop profile. ... > > I wouldn't be inclined to assume a new user might be using a server =A0 > profile because last time I checked these spit out an ugly warning =A0 > message about "this profile being untested" for EVERY SINGLE package =A0 > emerged. > > Eventually - after enabling PORTAGE_ELOG_* and being inundated with =A0 > warning spam for packages which had compiled without problems - I was =A0 > unable to tolerate this behaviour any longer & switched to a desktop =A0 > profile instead. > > So has something changed since I experienced this, or have many other =A0 > people just been ignoring the nuisance of the warning messages? > > I guess I chose a server profile in the first place because it seemed =A0 > more "correct" for me to do so (seeing as all my machines are =A0 > servers), but since I'm quite happy to put USE=3D"-X -gtk -qt &c" in my = =A0 > make.conf I can't see that it makes much difference. I tend to do the same as you. I like the idea of desktop, server and harden= ed=20 profiles but if the server profile is untested, then one has to ask the=20 question - why is it even there? Can profiles be "masked" in a way analogou= s=20 to packages? =2D-=20 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com