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From: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@g.o>
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 08:59:43
Message-Id: 58138a44-9bac-90a9-b12c-f513d4666ca1@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] profiles/targets/desktop: Do not enable ldap USE flag by default by Hans de Graaff
1 On 10.09.2020 08:35, Hans de Graaff wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 13:35 +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
3 >> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/741380
4 > Could you provide a rationale for removing this? The bug only has a
5 > single anecdotal report of a user who can run a desktop without it. I'm
6 > not sure if that is reason enough to remove this. I guess we won't be
7 > able to figure out easily how many of our desktop profile users are
8 > actually using LDAP, but changing this may cause surprises and I'm not
9 > sure if that's warranted.
10 >
11 > Hans
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14 Hi.
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16 It is dictated by common sense.
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18 I barely can imagine a case where you need ldap support in each and
19 every package you install.
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21 This should rather be per-package enabled as something non-trivial.

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