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.