[gentoo-user] desktop & sever profiles; was: Re: jpg support

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 8 Nov 2008, at 15:55, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Alan McKinnon schrieb am 08.11.2008 16:00:
>> ...
>> I'll bet your profile points to a server profile, not a desktop  
>> one. For the
>> server profile, the default is no X server and thus no jpeg. A  
>> quick search
>> shows me that all the desktop profiles enable jpeg by default - the  
>> expected
>> state for most users. You profile is dictated by what the /etc/ 
>> make.profile
>> symlink points to.
>> ...
>
> ... 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  
profile because last time I checked these spit out an ugly warning  
message about "this profile being untested" for EVERY SINGLE package  
emerged.

Eventually - after enabling PORTAGE_ELOG_* and being inundated with  
warning spam for packages which had compiled without problems - I was  
unable to tolerate this behaviour any longer & switched to a desktop  
profile instead.

So has something changed since I experienced this, or have many other  
people just been ignoring the nuisance of the warning messages?

I guess I chose a server profile in the first place because it seemed  
more "correct" for me to do so (seeing as all my machines are  
servers), but since I'm quite happy to put USE="-X -gtk -qt &c" in my  
make.conf I can't see that it makes much difference.

Stroller.