Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "M. J. Everitt" <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Ben Kohler <bkohler@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:08:03
Message-Id: dccaab3b-88ff-2a1b-7488-0ae3183df63d@iee.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding USE=udev to linux profiles by Ben Kohler
1 On 20/07/18 13:20, Ben Kohler wrote:
2 > On 07/19/18 20:54, Mikle Kolyada wrote:
3 >
4 >> +1. widely used profiles should have as least flags enabled by default
5 >> as possible, I would not be happy with +udev on my servers.
6 >>
7 > I disagree with this premise. The default and most widely used profiles
8 > should fit the most common use cases.
9 >
10 > I'd be curious as to what problems would be caused on your servers if
11 > this flag were turned on-- specifically what packages will get the flag
12 > turned on, where that bothers you? On my servers, the impact is very
13 > minimal.
14 >
15 > I'm not totally sure that my proposal of USE=udev is correct/justified,
16 > but there are a few counter-arguments I've heard that I don't think hold
17 > water, I'd like to focus on the others.
18 >
19 > -Ben
20 Ben: Were you trying to sign your email .. a strange .asc attachment
21 came through this end?
22
23 Can we make a 'minimal'/container/etc _profile_ for such use-cases
24 perhaps? so that linux 'default' might have +udev but this minimal
25 doesn't .. or won't the overlapping of profiles allow this?

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