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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags
Date: Sat, 05 May 2012 19:56:56
Message-Id: 4FA585BA.60907@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: remove ldap from desktop profiles use flags by "Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)"
1 Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote:
2 >
3 > On May 5, 2012 3:14 PM, "Markos Chandras" <hwoarang@g.o
4 > <mailto:hwoarang@g.o>> wrote:
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9 >> On 05/05/2012 06:10 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
10 >> > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Maxim Koltsov
11 >> > <maksbotan@g.o <mailto:maksbotan@g.o>> wrote:
12 >> >> Hi, I just installed fresh system on my pc, selected
13 >> >> 'default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop' profile and noticed ldap among
14 >> >> default USE flags. Why is that needed? I suppose there are more
15 >> >> users w/o ldap auth on desktops than with it. So my proposal is
16 >> >> to remove it from profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults. Any
17 >> >> objections?
18 >> >>
19 >> >
20 >> > So how are you going to avoid destroying machines that rely on it
21 >> > being on by default?
22 >> >
23 >> > -A
24 >> >
25 >> Users will note the use flag change when they run "emerge -uDN world"
26 >> and they will add it to their make.conf. I am also in favor of
27 >> dropping ldap from the desktop profiles.
28 >
29 > I don't like this change much. There are valid use cases for an ldap use
30 > flag in the desktop profile that could break easily with this change.
31 >
32 > Also, you could make the same case for adding -ldap to your make.conf
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35 Not to mention, you add the possibility that the user may miss the
36 change since they are not expecting it. I would expect it when I was
37 changing profiles but not so much just coming out of the blue.
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39 Dale
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41 :-) :-)
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44 --
45 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
46 how you interpreted my words!
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48 Miss the compile output? Hint:
49 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"

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