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Hi Ben, |
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Ben Kohler <bkohler@g.o> writes: |
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> I'd like to propose adding USE=udev to our linux profiles (in |
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> profiles/default/linux/make.defaults probably). This flag is already |
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> enabled on desktop profiles but it also affects quite a few packages |
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> used on non-desktop linux systems. |
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> This flag provides useful functionality that most linux users will |
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> want. I'm a bit surprised that we still don't have it in all linux |
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> profiles, but I think we've worked around this in the past by adding |
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> IUSE=+udev to quite a few of those packages (33 packages, 116 ebuilds, |
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> by my count). |
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> This missing flag came to my attention again on bug 661584 where lvm2 |
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> has IUSE=+udev but cryptsetup has only IUSE=udev, so non-desktop users |
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> have a bit of a mismatch between the 2 and get ugly errors on |
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> cryptsetup. |
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I expect this to be fixed on the package-by-package basis. |
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> Since this flag only affects linux, I think it makes more sense to set |
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> it in linux profiles than to use IUSE defaults. |
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> Any objections to this idea? |
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To represent the Gentoo Prefix users, we would like to have USE=udev |
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turned off or even hard masked on linux-prefix profiles. |
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Yours, |
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Benda |