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From: Alec Warner <antarus@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 15:45:27
Message-Id: CAAr7Pr9g4+aO9z4V4e7jmL-atFUHCQwnpPNw8e9CSzSbKeSmLA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: Do not enable ldap USE flag by default by Mikle Kolyada
1 On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 1:59 AM Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@g.o> wrote:
2
3 >
4 > On 10.09.2020 08:35, Hans de Graaff wrote:
5 > > On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 13:35 +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
6 > >> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/741380
7 > > Could you provide a rationale for removing this? The bug only has a
8 > > single anecdotal report of a user who can run a desktop without it. I'm
9 > > not sure if that is reason enough to remove this. I guess we won't be
10 > > able to figure out easily how many of our desktop profile users are
11 > > actually using LDAP, but changing this may cause surprises and I'm not
12 > > sure if that's warranted.
13 > >
14 > > Hans
15 >
16 >
17 > Hi.
18 >
19 > It is dictated by common sense.
20 >
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22 > I barely can imagine a case where you need ldap support in each and
23 > every package you install.
24 >
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26 I can, but not in a desktop environment. In an enterprise environment you
27 will need it (but I'd expect folks to add it.)
28 The challenge is just in changing the default. E.g. we might not do it
29 until a new profile bump (e.g. do it in a 2020 or 2021 profile?)
30
31 -A
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34 >
35 > This should rather be per-package enabled as something non-trivial.
36 >
37 >
38 >

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