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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 08:46:56
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr8ikzk-85RVxivDULsW=3+TegHG4o+Y00vttjbBPTrs0A@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
2 > rough poll: how many people actually care about nscd ? i'm making it into a
3 > USE flag for glibc-2.17 and it's easiest for me to do IUSE=nscd which means
4 > it'd default to off.
5 > -mike
6
7 To be fair, in my large enterprise deployment we have turned nscd off
8 for years. However my guess is that this is cargo cult from 2002-esque
9 bugs in nscd; I'm curious why we would turn it off by default?
10
11 -A

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Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>