It's not about *you*. Please provide a reasonable justification. On July 19, 2018 9:54:40 PM EDT, Mikle Kolyada <zlog...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > >On 20.07.2018 04:42, Andrew Savchenko wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:51:17 -0500 Ben Kohler wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'd like to propose adding USE=udev to our linux profiles (in >>> profiles/default/linux/make.defaults probably). This flag is >already >>> enabled on desktop profiles but it also affects quite a few packages > >>> used on non-desktop linux systems. >>> >>> This flag provides useful functionality that most linux users will >want. >>> I'm a bit surprised that we still don't have it in all linux >profiles, >>> but I think we've worked around this in the past by adding >IUSE=+udev to >>> quite a few of those packages (33 packages, 116 ebuilds, by my >count). >>> >>> This missing flag came to my attention again on bug 661584 where >lvm2 >>> has IUSE=+udev but cryptsetup has only IUSE=udev, so non-desktop >users >>> have a bit of a mismatch between the 2 and get ugly errors on >cryptsetup. >>> >>> Since this flag only affects linux, I think it makes more sense to >set >>> it in linux profiles than to use IUSE defaults. >>> >>> Any objections to this idea? >> I have server setups with udev disabled for most packages. So udev >> enabled by default will create maintenance problems. While I'm >> perfectly fine with udev enabled by default on desktops, it should >> not be forced on minimalistic setups like servers or containers. >> >> Best regards, >> Andrew Savchenko >+1. widely used profiles should have as least flags enabled by default >as possible, I would not be happy with +udev on my servers.
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