On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > sounds like something to fix rather than punt. i don't know why you think > having server profiles is "undesirable", but i certainly desire it on many > systems. like servers. the desktop and developer profiles are not > appropriate.
I think the base profiles generally are appropriate. Most of the stuff that I'd consider a value-add on ANY server is already in the base profile. Maybe if we dropped ssh from system then having it in a server profile would make sense. When I build server-like installs I just use the generic profile as a starting point. Servers could do anything. The software on a LAMP is going to be way different than the software on a mail server or a DNS server. And, if I am going to run a mail server I might want any of 14 varieties of mail-related services. I could see some use for profiles if they were maintained and designed so that you could pick the profile, do an emerge -uDN world, and end up with a "just works" server. However, that would likely mean having dozens of them, and unless somebody wants to maintain them I don't see the point. Rich
