-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Herbert wrote: > On 9/20/06, Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As long as we have no package sets support in portage, I do indeed think >> that this is the best way to go. Didn't realize that you mentioned it, >> too. >> @Stuart: What do you think? > > Right now, I'm not too concerned about the lack of package set > support. That might change down the road, after we've lived with it > for awhile. > > One of the things we're going to trial is supporting USE flags in the > seeds themselves. We'll try out having the > seeds/lamp-server/release-1 profile (or whatever it ends up being > called) setting a suitable set of USE flags to support a LAMP > environment that includes Apache, PHP4&5, Perl, Python, and Rails. > The seeds-base/lamp-server package itself will rely on USE flags to > switch on all those options. If anyone wants to build the seed from > source locally, they'll be able to change the USE flags (for example) > to build a LAMP Server that's dedicated to just Rails, or just Python. > > We think that'll make the LAMP Server seed more useful to our users in > practice. The folks who want a quick stage4 tarball to seed a box - > they'll get the whole nine yards. But folks who want to customise > things (by compiling from source, probably using a stage3 tarball and > the standard minimal install CD) - they're catered for too. > > That's why - atm - we don't want to just lump everything into a > profile, or just into a catalyst spec file. Maybe one of those will > turn out to be the right way to go, but we'd like to explore this > approach first, and see how things turn out. > > Best regards, > Stu
Seems like a catalyst specfile would be a nice complement to an existing stage4 tarball, when possible. That way you can get your immediate canned install pleasure, while having something to build on for future needs, or if (say) you have a specialized situation that you need to further tweak for (say) several clients without having to do extensive work installing/tweaking the original stage4. I like the suggestions so far, though I don't think a metapackage is really necessary -- the issue here seems to be fresh installations, not emerging a package set (or similar) to magically turn one's existing Gentoo box into a LAMP server. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFEajErsJQqN81j74RAl0SAJ4zOplRIrRAzPxds/mxUAZW+O0mugCfdV1w wekm0ZBPXkRAFFN+276F9GU= =0yUS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
