On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The following USE flags are enabled by default in our base/linux > profiles. I think they can be disabled, possibly turning them on in > package.use (or in the ebuilds) if they are important. Yes, no? > > 1. USE=cracklib (base/make.defaults) > > This might belong in the hardened profile, but it doesn't do anything > critical -- it just enables "your password sucks" warnings. > > 2. USE=modules (base/make.defaults) > > This was originally used to enable kernel modules corresponding to > linux-mod.eclass, but now the USE flag name is controlled by a > variable and isn't guaranteed to be "modules". Two packages use > it for things that aren't kernel modules. > > 3. USE=session (default/linux/make.defaults) > > Does wildly-different things to the few packages it affects, > and never should have been enabled globally in the first place (it > was done to enable sessions by default in dev-lang/php).
Agreed on all counts.
