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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 17:16:40
Message-Id: 4FA55F95.20209@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags by Alec Warner
1 On 05/05/2012 08:10 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
2 > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Maxim Koltsov<maksbotan@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >> I just installed fresh system on my pc, selected
5 >> 'default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop' profile and noticed ldap among
6 >> default USE flags. Why is that needed? I suppose there are more users
7 >> w/o ldap auth on desktops than with it.
8 >> So my proposal is to remove it from
9 >> profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults. Any objections?
10 >>
11 >
12 > So how are you going to avoid destroying machines that rely on it
13 > being on by default?
14 >
15 > -A
16 >
17
18 An answer to the "But, it has always been like this." is a matter of
19 issuing a portage news item (glep 42)
20
21 (But yeah, I agree we need to be careful with changing the USE flags set
22 globally by profiles)