Re: [gentoo-desktop] Desktop nearly unbootable!! Need HELP!!

[Donnie Berkholz]

Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> Here are a couple of thoughts.  There's a single ldap USE flag spec'd for
> Gentoo.  There are, however, several widely different ways in which ldap can be
> used.  For instance, although I have ldap in my USE flags for my desktop
> system, I don't want to use ldap authentication, nor do I want the system to
> even try to use it.  I do want ldap capabilities in applications such as
> evolution, and ldap clients, and proper schemas installed by various such
> applilcations which can take advantage of them.  Perhaps rather than a single
> "ldap" USE flag, there need to be at least a couple - "ldap-auth",
> "ldap-client", etc.

Propose this to the LDAP maintainers or gentoo-dev. It probably won't be
heard and heeded in this forum.

> One of the disadvantages of Gentoo is that it follows the open source maxim
> "release early, release often" pretty literally.  The choices are either to
> keep an identical non-production server around as a test bed or to not try to
> keep up2date on stuff once the system is stable.  I do live dangerously, and
> reserve the right to whine about it when I get my butt bitten ;-)  One of the
> advantages of Gentoo is that the dev community and forums are generally very
> helpful in solving stuff when things break.  bugs.gentoo.org is a great
> resource to which I successfully turn more often than I would wish.

You should always have a test-bed for production servers, regardless of
which distro you're using.

> Yeah, this bug has been outstanding for many months.  I put a version cap in
> packages.mask on nss_ldap and a comment referencing the bug report.  It looks
> as if Greg KH and other devs can't quite agree on where the responsibility lies
> for this one.

Greg KH agreed on gentoo-dev that it was a problem in udev, but he
didn't and still doesn't have the time to fix it and is waiting for a patch.

Thanks,
Donnie