Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Enable FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" by default?

[Davide Pesavento]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In case you aren't familiar with FEATURES=userpriv, here's the
> description from the make.conf(5) man page:
>
>  Allow portage to drop root privileges and compile packages as
>  portage:portage without a sandbox (unless usersandbox is also used).
>
> The rationale for having the separate "usersandbox" setting, to enable
> use of sys-apps/sandbox, is that people who enable userpriv sometimes
> prefer to have sandbox disabled in order to slightly improve
> performance. However, I would recommend to enable usersandbox by
> default, for the purpose of logging sandbox violations.
>
> Note that ebuilds can set RESTRICT="userpriv" if they require superuser
> privileges during any of the src_* phases that userpriv affects.
>
> I've been using FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" for years, and I don't
> remember experiencing any problems because of it, so I think that it
> would be reasonable to have it enabled by default. Objections?
> --
> Thanks,
> Zac
>

I've been using both FEATURES for a few years too, seemingly without
adverse effects, so +1 from me.

Thanks,
Pesa