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 1N2e3A-0008AP-56 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:52:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B98C8E0848; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f191.google.com (mail-yw0-f191.google.com [209.85.211.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 930D0E0848 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh29 with SMTP id 29so10715080ywh.32 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:52:50 -0700 (PDT) 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=j4pzoRwWkFm1BRy2EI1V3OwX6Ykh1a70fNbERdx23PQ=; b=Y6h1a2HpW69l5TA6OcOG4ucYijzr7NI20N7CUWxeEUMHlYtu4dn/I6Mb1S8UUfVahy RWQjAOiN+UW3ihGxkKFfRGQrhdJOSyhOkciMZy4qvZlF7nampZfWGHOYsHQFZefYkOG+ MkDr5OcG0O16atOoazJr02Nw1NW7OYSBcrJKI= 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=l7hL5aZF1a1D/MMEBFzO6Dcvk2tEDrFM/sewnNhvlNfXNc34iVgtiCuEphwjEw9x/4 5c14HAFF05zyhRcn2buHFOoIWB66AoU1x7r5WV1kg5BzHmZ4lUO9E39XnjhRpmcs54A2 nbMb0eousM+pRtfW4QezZlz6YjfQ1C3rkzPh4= Received: by 10.150.168.36 with SMTP id q36mr25693363ybe.21.1256619170186; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-95-111.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.111]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 21sm1458331ywh.16.2009.10.26.21.52.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE67C9F.7060103@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:52:47 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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] emerge advises upgrade profile References: <87my3dohps.fsf@newsguy.com> <1256600902.19685.207.camel@rattus> <200910270152.27090.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1256608357.10355.24.camel@bunyip.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1256608357.10355.24.camel@bunyip.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 65f32399-6a23-43a6-8db0-8ed2cba1b5cd X-Archives-Hash: febbd540ae3d6a0642149dfb41f18ea8 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 :-) :-)