Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek) wrote:
> 
> On May 5, 2012 3:14 PM, "Markos Chandras" <hwoar...@gentoo.org
> <mailto:hwoar...@gentoo.org>> wrote:
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>> On 05/05/2012 06:10 PM, Alec Warner wrote:
>> > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Maxim Koltsov
>> > <maksbo...@gentoo.org <mailto:maksbo...@gentoo.org>> wrote:
>> >> Hi, I just installed fresh system on my pc, selected
>> >> 'default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop' profile and noticed ldap among
>> >> default USE flags. Why is that needed? I suppose there are more
>> >> users w/o ldap auth on desktops than with it. So my proposal is
>> >> to remove it from profiles/targets/desktop/make.defaults. Any
>> >> objections?
>> >>
>> >
>> > So how are you going to avoid destroying machines that rely on it
>> > being on by default?
>> >
>> > -A
>> >
>> Users will note the use flag change when they run "emerge -uDN world"
>> and they will add it to their make.conf. I am also in favor of
>> dropping ldap from the desktop profiles.
> 
> I don't like this change much. There are valid use cases for an ldap use
> flag in the desktop profile that could break easily with this change.
> 
> Also, you could make the same case for adding -ldap to your make.conf


Not to mention, you add the possibility that the user may miss the
change since they are not expecting it.  I would expect it when I was
changing profiles but not so much just coming out of the blue.

Dale

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