On вс 27 янв 2013 18:32:19 MSK, Anthony G. Basile <bas...@opensource.dyc.edu> 
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?

I've never used these subprofiles.

-- 
Alexander Tsoy

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