On 8 Nov 2008, at 17:35, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

Stroller schrieb am 08.11.2008 18:13:

I wouldn't be inclined to assume a new user might be using a server
profile because last time I checked these spit out an ugly warning
message about "this profile being untested" for EVERY SINGLE package
emerged.
...

I don't know if the server profile is untested. I for myself neither use
a server nor a desktop profile. Here is my profile symlink.

/etc/make.profile ->
/media/system/repositories/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0


I assume you're aware that if you look inside that directory you'll find "desktop" and "server" subdirectories?

  $ ls /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/
  desktop  developer  parent  server
  $ ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 8 07:01 /etc/make.profile -> /usr/ portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0
  $ ls /etc/make.profile
  desktop  developer  parent  server
  $

In this case I had assumed the "default" was for Portage simply to assume desktop.

Stroller.


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