On Monday, September 28, 2009 14:16:06 Ed W wrote:
> Gordon Malm wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 04:46:13 Tom Hendrikx wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> As of today, portage notifies me that my current profile (hardened/x86)
> >> is deprecated, and that "hardened/linux/x86/10.0" is the suggested
> >> replacement.
> >>
> >> A few months ago, there was some traffic on this list regarding
> >> profiles, resulting in the conclusion that "hardened/x86" was to be
> >> preferred above the default as set (by releng?) in the hardened stages:
> >> "hardened/linux/x86", as the latter was not approved or checked by the
> >> hardened project.
> >>
> >> How does the new profile differ from hardened/x86, and is the new
> >> profile tested/approved by the hardened project?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Tom
> >
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > You are correct, the hardened/linux/${arch} profiles were born by releng.
> > Hardened project took them over some time ago however and have been
> > maintaining both profile sets in parallel. The time has come to pair
> > that down to a single set of profiles again; thus the older
> > hardened/${arch} profiles have been deprecated.
> >
> > The hardened/linux/${arch}/10.0 profiles are tested/approved by the
> > hardened team. Please file a bug if you run into problems.
>
> Can someone please explain why the default has switched to USE="-nls"?
> What implications does this hold for people upgrading? (Should I remove
> gettext at the end?)
>
> Thanks
Hi Ed,
It is my estimation that flag was disabled by mistake on the
hardened/linux/${arch} profiles. I have re-enabled it. Should be fixed on
your next sync.
