Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: John Helmert III <jchelmert3@××××××.net>
To: 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 15:03:17
Message-Id: 20200910150306.GA2501967@sol.nexus.local
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 11:59:31AM +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
2 >
3 > On 10.09.2020 08:35, Hans de Graaff wrote:
4 > > On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 13:35 +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
5 > >> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/741380
6 > > Could you provide a rationale for removing this? The bug only has a
7 > > single anecdotal report of a user who can run a desktop without it. I'm
8 > > not sure if that is reason enough to remove this. I guess we won't be
9 > > able to figure out easily how many of our desktop profile users are
10 > > actually using LDAP, but changing this may cause surprises and I'm not
11 > > sure if that's warranted.
12 > >
13 > > Hans
14 >
15 >
16 > Hi.
17 >
18 > It is dictated by common sense.
19 >
20 > I barely can imagine a case where you need ldap support in each and
21 > every package you install.
22 >
23 > This should rather be per-package enabled as something non-trivial.
24
25 Maybe this change should be introduced with a news item just to help
26 limit surprises?

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