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You are the minimalist... Not the rest. Provide a reasonable scenario please. |
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On July 19, 2018 9:42:11 PM EDT, Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o> wrote: |
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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 |
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>want. |
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>> I'm a bit surprised that we still don't have it in all linux |
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>profiles, |
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>> but I think we've worked around this in the past by adding IUSE=+udev |
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>to |
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>> quite a few of those packages (33 packages, 116 ebuilds, by my |
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>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 |
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>users |
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>> have a bit of a mismatch between the 2 and get ugly errors on |
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>cryptsetup. |
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>> Since this flag only affects linux, I think it makes more sense to |
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>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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