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On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:51:17 -0500 Ben Kohler wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I'd like to propose adding USE=udev to our linux profiles (in |
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> profiles/default/linux/make.defaults probably). This flag is already |
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> enabled on desktop profiles but it also affects quite a few packages |
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> used on non-desktop linux systems. |
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> This flag provides useful functionality that most linux users will want. |
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> I'm a bit surprised that we still don't have it in all linux profiles, |
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> but I think we've worked around this in the past by adding IUSE=+udev to |
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> quite a few of those packages (33 packages, 116 ebuilds, by my count). |
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> This missing flag came to my attention again on bug 661584 where lvm2 |
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> has IUSE=+udev but cryptsetup has only IUSE=udev, so non-desktop users |
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> have a bit of a mismatch between the 2 and get ugly errors on cryptsetup. |
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> Since this flag only affects linux, I think it makes more sense to set |
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> it in linux profiles than to use IUSE defaults. |
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> Any objections to this idea? |
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I have server setups with udev disabled for most packages. So udev |
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enabled by default will create maintenance problems. While I'm |
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perfectly fine with udev enabled by default on desktops, it should |
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not be forced on minimalistic setups like servers or containers. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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