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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] profiles: drop USE=cracklib from base/make.defaults.
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2017 16:31:48
Message-Id: e6574946-a110-4a02-47cf-6e90c97519fd@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/1] profiles: drop USE=cracklib from base/make.defaults. by Mart Raudsepp
1 On 12/27/2017 10:42 AM, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
2 > If you want to make such a base profile change, then I believe you
3 > should contact the maintainers and see which one wants it default
4 > disabled, and which default enabled; do the default enabled changes
5 > and only afterwards you can touch a base default USE flag
6
7 The bug is titled "base/make.defaults: unset USE=cracklib by default"
8 and it says,
9
10 I'm CCing the maintainers of all affected packages. If anyone would
11 like us to wait until they've set "+cracklib" in their ebuilds, please
12 just file a blocker bug against this.
13
14 It's been two months, and all I asked for is a "hey, don't do it yet..."