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From: Christian Ruppert <idl0r@g.o>
Subject: Re: About userpriv usage
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 15:24:20 +0200
On 05/28/12 at 12:49AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 05/27/2012 03:27 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > I have seen today a fixed bug that was only reproducible for people
> > (like me) running without userpriv (but maintainer didn't found it
> > before commiting because he was running with this feature enabled), I
> > have also seen some packages skipping tests when not using userpriv. I
> > am unsure then, why default is still to not use userpriv?
> 
> I think it's not enabled by default just because there's always risk
> involved in changing the defaults. I've been using it for years and I
> don't remember experiencing any problems because of it.
> 

Same here.

> > I haven't
> > found important bugs opened pointing regressions but, since it's still
> > disabled by default, I am still running in the old way instead of using
> > "userpriv usersandbox" :/
> 
> I plan to send an email to the gentoo-dev mailing list, to ask if there
> are any objections to having FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" enabled by
> default.

+1

> -- 
> Thanks,
> Zac
> 

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Regards,
Christian Ruppert
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