On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Thomas Sachau <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 29.10.2010 14:13, schrieb Petteri Räty: >> On 29.10.2010 15.02, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: >> >>> >>>> 2) Furthermore I would like to drop the following use flags from default >>>> IUSE >>> >>>> -apache2 >>>> -ldap >>> >>>> A minimal server installation does requires neither apache2 nor ldap >>> >>> Although one can install a server without apache or ldap, I'd say the >>> server profile seems the natural choice to have them enabled. >>> If we had the statistics for it, we could check how many people have >>> apache installed with that profile vs not having it. As there's nothing >>> preventing one from having USE="-apache2 -ldap" when required and I >>> don't use the server profiles, I don't really have a strong opinion >>> about this. >>> >> >> And enabling a use flag should be question of is it wanted when a >> package actually support those flags. On a server when you are >> installing a package with a apache use flag it's certainly possible to >> you would like to have it enabled more often than not. >> >> Regards, >> Petteri >> >> > > Which raises the question, if those people, who want to install a minimal > server will mostly use > apache or something different. And especially for minimal setups, i dont > think that apache will be > the first choice, so i agree with the removal of those USE flags from default > IUSE. > The profile is intended to have a minimal set of flags, i would call apache > an additional optional > flag, not a default option for minimal server setups. >
Totally agreed! Best regards. -- Rafael Goncalves Martins Gentoo Linux developer http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/
