Re: [gentoo-dev] USE="acl" in profiles

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:49, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 September 2004 15:15, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 15:47, John Davis wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 18:41 +0200, Benjamin Judas wrote:
> > > > What do you think about it and how do you think this should be solved?
> > >
> > > I'd say go ahead and remove it from the stages. IIRC, the acl use in the
> > > stages is a hold over from the 1.4 days.
> >
> > This means users will not be able to install using ext2/3/reiserfs/xfs
> > with acl support.
>
> While I don't see any problems keeping acl, it is no problem at all to enable
> acl's on those filesystems after installation. The default stages do not
> contain acl's in any case so any advantage for installing on an acl enabled
> filesystem are not there.

The user would have to:
USE=acl emerge coreutils rsync

before they could use any acl, but I believe that they should be able to
enable it in the kernel without having to have USE=acl... can anyone
confirm this?  If not, I'll have to get some testing done on it.

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Chris Gianelloni
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