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 1KysZ4-0002Pf-1w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:29:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69CDFE045C; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.249]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B1FEE045C for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 18:29:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1710641rvf.46 for ; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:29:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CzIzh+5K5OHjl+wbcnelCwVxPPK3JzdOvs/5K+7C9ac=; b=XFe7CWgf1osmEcS+aAqw7bvZ6viyB1wbTVKCu5p36YvJteQgyoEqKCcANw6+BesVTP HN3i6wUE59uYKdSGs7eIkabqE0lleXLsmBSBM9Eom38klexwbFMdJcZ0png1utEY6PNJ 9Wbuwxe704NEQATbdr8SLk/s6kypegeZLo8LY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DA5gJznWc+uYofUyVUBTEU23oFGCO6kuhVSOEMQZb1pyQhm+s6j/eafahdmPY7CZo5 8XKgnV0vt4l6KoEmy+U9F2QfRhmKudm/cHh44KdA4dvlSeBosS2gYyMWWHRV0Gv2itUQ 2BGyp1e4ePgE+Ha+BthizhSzTd/Mqmw+3gyGc= Received: by 10.141.204.20 with SMTP id g20mr2555201rvq.132.1226168980270; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:29:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.91.191? (dialup-4.231.91.191.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.91.191]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g31sm13704682rvb.7.2008.11.08.10.29.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:29:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4915DA8E.10606@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:29:34 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080928 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] desktop & sever profiles; was: Re: jpg support References: <491574CD.5070407@googlemail.com> <200811081700.30089.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4915B683.6090405@googlemail.com> <3BEB556D-CEF7-4B04-A354-A487E8BB5F04@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <4915CDC7.6080708@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e7290270-9d16-44fd-838b-256ff554859d X-Archives-Hash: 4e2d25ac402f4d17bce6fed3712db181 Stroller wrote: > > On 8 Nov 2008, at 17:35, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > >> Stroller schrieb am 08.11.2008 18:13: >>> >>> 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. >>> ... >> >> I don't know if the server profile is untested. I for myself neither use >> a server nor a desktop profile. Here is my profile symlink. >> >> /etc/make.profile -> >> /media/system/repositories/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 > > > I assume you're aware that if you look inside that directory you'll > find "desktop" and "server" subdirectories? > > $ ls /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/ > desktop developer parent server > $ ls -l /etc/make.profile > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 8 07:01 /etc/make.profile -> > /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0 > $ ls /etc/make.profile > desktop developer parent server > $ > > In this case I had assumed the "default" was for Portage simply to > assume desktop. > > Stroller. > > > >From my understanding, portage doesn't look in the subdirectories, just the files in the directory. If that is still correct, then it doesn't matter what is below that. Also, keep in mind that back in the early days, there was no desktop or server profiles. Dale :-) :-)