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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:52:42
Message-Id: 201301011253.16112.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional by Maxim Kammerer
1 On Monday 31 December 2012 18:23:06 Maxim Kammerer wrote:
2 > On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 30 December 2012 13:47:40 Maxim Kammerer wrote:
4 > >> Desktop users would probably benefit more from glibc databases, if they
5 > >> worked: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432020
6 > >> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14498
7 > >
8 > > (1) i doubt it and (2) this isn't a discussion of bugs in nscd
9 >
10 > It's relevant to the discussion, because glibc databases are an
11 > alternative to running nscd. As a desktop user, I run nscd even on a
12 > desktop without YP/NIS+, because I don't like the idea of glibc
13 > functions parsing plain text files on each related query. I would use
14 > glibc databases instead of nscd if that was a reliable option.
15
16 one uncommonly used feature on the desktop vs another uncommonly used feature
17 on the desktop doesn't really add much
18 -mike

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