Re: [gentoo-user] emerge advises upgrade profile

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

W.Kenworthy wrote:
> 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
>
>   

Well, I read you can put something in your make.conf USE line that
disables most of the profile.  I think it is
"-*" or something like that.  It disables the USE part at least.  You
can then start with basically nothing and build your own. 

Want to hear something else funny, there is talk of having a KDE profile
and some have mentioned a Gnome profile as well. 

No matter what you chose to use, you can still override the settings if
you need to.  That's what make.conf is for. 

Dale

:-)  :-)