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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: Do not enable ldap USE flag by default
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 15:49:38
Message-Id: CAJ0EP41L-Mc=MmKQrxEwh-ZLKYzM8ZzA+Su0qH=H3PAkko81pA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: Do not enable ldap USE flag by default by Alec Warner
1 On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:45 AM Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 1:59 AM Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@g.o> wrote:
4 >>
5 >>
6 >> On 10.09.2020 08:35, Hans de Graaff wrote:
7 >> > On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 13:35 +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
8 >> >> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/741380
9 >> > Could you provide a rationale for removing this? The bug only has a
10 >> > single anecdotal report of a user who can run a desktop without it. I'm
11 >> > not sure if that is reason enough to remove this. I guess we won't be
12 >> > able to figure out easily how many of our desktop profile users are
13 >> > actually using LDAP, but changing this may cause surprises and I'm not
14 >> > sure if that's warranted.
15 >> >
16 >> > Hans
17 >>
18 >>
19 >> Hi.
20 >>
21 >> It is dictated by common sense.
22 >>
23 >>
24 >> I barely can imagine a case where you need ldap support in each and
25 >> every package you install.
26 >
27 >
28 > I can, but not in a desktop environment. In an enterprise environment you will need it (but I'd expect folks to add it.)
29 > The challenge is just in changing the default. E.g. we might not do it until a new profile bump (e.g. do it in a 2020 or 2021 profile?)
30
31 I think a news item with some time delay would be sufficient to inform
32 any enterprise admins so they can push a local config change.