Hi Ben, Ben Kohler <bkoh...@gentoo.org> writes:
> 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. I expect this to be fixed on the package-by-package basis. > 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? To represent the Gentoo Prefix users, we would like to have USE=udev turned off or even hard masked on linux-prefix profiles. Yours, Benda
