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From: "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Defaulting desktop profiles to net-nds/openldap[minimal]
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:28:50
Message-Id: 50BAA0AA.2080703@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Defaulting desktop profiles to net-nds/openldap[minimal] by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 Diego Elio Pettenò schrieb:
2 > In
3 > the mean time, I would suggest that, since the desktop profiles already
4 > have USE=ldap enabled, we should default on the same profiles to
5 >
6 > net-nds/openldap minimal
7 >
8 > to make sure that the default desktop users don't get a copy of openldap
9 > (server) installed.
10
11 I like to think of the desktop profile as a (functionality wise) superset of
12 the default profile. The proposed change will be contrary to this idea.
13
14 > So, should we change the profiles' defaults?
15
16 I would vote for no.
17
18 If this change is applied anyway, I suggest to at least produce a news item
19 in order to not surprise users about the sudden loss of their openldap server.
20
21
22 Best regards,
23 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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