Anthony G. Basile wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The number of profiles in gentoo is growing *again* with the addition > of release 13.0 profiles. Because of the way stacking works, adding > these to hardened means a repetition of code in a way that is not > good. I'll decide how to proceed in a week or so, let everyone know > and then implement something. Right now I'm leaning towards "test" > profiles for amd64 and x86 and after some good period of testing (6 > months?) just switch all of hardened from 10.0 to 13.0. > > While I'm at the business of rethinking the profiles, I've been > wondering, does anyone use the /desktop, /developer, /server sub > profiles? I've officially only listed the following > > [18] hardened/linux/amd64 * [19] hardened/linux/amd64/selinux [20] > hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib [21] > hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib/selinux > > for amd64, and similarly for other arches. But there also exist > profiles like: > > hardened/linux/amd64/desktop hardened/linux/amd64/developer > hardened/linux/amd64/server > > for ia64, ppc, ppc64 and x86. I didn't even bother to add these for > mips or arm. These are not listed in profiles.desc, so you can't > eselect them, but a user could manually create those links. > > If no one is using them, I'll mark them deprecated, and dump them in > a month or two. > > Comments? > >
Hi, I only ever use the base profiles. Tully Gray.
