Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] About userpriv usage
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 12:09:05
Message-Id: 1338196139.6537.6.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] About userpriv usage by Zac Medico
1 El lun, 28-05-2012 a las 00:49 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
2 > On 05/27/2012 03:27 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > I have seen today a fixed bug that was only reproducible for people
4 > > (like me) running without userpriv (but maintainer didn't found it
5 > > before commiting because he was running with this feature enabled), I
6 > > have also seen some packages skipping tests when not using userpriv. I
7 > > am unsure then, why default is still to not use userpriv?
8 >
9 > I think it's not enabled by default just because there's always risk
10 > involved in changing the defaults. I've been using it for years and I
11 > don't remember experiencing any problems because of it.
12 >
13 > > I haven't
14 > > found important bugs opened pointing regressions but, since it's still
15 > > disabled by default, I am still running in the old way instead of using
16 > > "userpriv usersandbox" :/
17 >
18 > I plan to send an email to the gentoo-dev mailing list, to ask if there
19 > are any objections to having FEATURES="userpriv usersandbox" enabled by
20 > default.
21
22 Well, thanks a lot :D
23
24 It's really a pleasure to discuss with you :)

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