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From: "Dawid Węgliński" <cla@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kerberos USE flag
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:01:54
Message-Id: 200810312001.45963.cla@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] kerberos USE flag by Doug Goldstein
1 On Friday 31 of October 2008 19:41:26 Doug Goldstein wrote:
2 > Dawid Węgliński wrote:
3 > > On Friday 31 of October 2008 19:17:45 Doug Goldstein wrote:
4 > >> Marius Mauch wrote:
5 > >>> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:52:59 -0400
6 > >>>
7 > >>> Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
8 > >>>> Someone remind me again why we have the kerberos USE flag enabled by
9 > >>>> default?
10 > >>>
11 > >>> AFAIK it was added so that the default profile provides support for
12 > >>> joining a Windows domain (same for the ldap flag).
13 > >>
14 > >> So let's use EAPI=1 in just the samba ebuild and do +kerberos in there.
15 > >
16 > > samba needs USE="ads ldap" to join NT domain.
17 >
18 > heh. You beat me to the punch. I was just about to say that samba
19 > doesn't have a kerberos USE flag.
20 >
21 > So any objections to me nuking this USE flag pronto?
22
23 I'd be +1 to drop kerberos useflag, and probably make use of eapi1 in
24 nfs-utils and such, where kerberos would be more apropriate.