Moving USE flags from local to global status is frequently discussed
here, so this seems to be the right forum to raise the issue...
[d531][waltdnes][~] grep suid /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc
suid - Enable setuid root program, with potential security risks
[d531][waltdnes][~] grep :suid /usr/
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
from the tree, for the week ending 2012-12-30 23h59 UTC.
Removals:
net-misc/ups-monitor2012-12-24 08:56:39 pinkbyte
dev-haskell/hsql-sqlite 2012-12-24 22:25:23 slyfox
net-proxy/paros
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> because i suspect it's dead weight for most people, especially desktop users.
Desktop users would probably benefit more from glibc databases, if they worked:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432020
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show
On Sunday 30 December 2012 03:46:01 Alec Warner wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > rough poll: how many people actually care about nscd ? i'm making it
> > into a USE flag for glibc-2.17 and it's easiest for me to do IUSE=nscd
> > which means it'd default to off.
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:10:21 +0100
Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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> On 30/12/12 15:01, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > Maybe you could suggest a nice beforehand UI for REQUIRED_USE
> > constraints.
> I think this is orthogonal to the discussion. If ffm
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:01:52 -0300
Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > Etc. ffmpeg is like the holy grail of local bindist descriptions.
>
> bindist does absolutely nothing by itself there. do you really want a
> description like "Enforces license compatibility constraints" ?
> I consider this a subset of
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On 30/12/12 15:01, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> Maybe you could suggest a nice beforehand UI for REQUIRED_USE
> constraints.
I think this is orthogonal to the discussion. If ffmpeg had a local
description of bindist,
# equery u ffmpeg
would outpu
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:42:23 +0100
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> On 30/12/12 12:39, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> > On 30/12/2012 04:03, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> >> That would be much more effective than a policy that may be
> >> (accidentally) ign
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> On 30/12/12 13:15, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> > I see his point that emerge will sort of imply what does bindist
> > do, but it requires running emerge several times with different US
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On 30/12/12 13:15, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
> I see his point that emerge will sort of imply what does bindist
> do, but it requires running emerge several times with different USE
> flag combinations, while just writing a small explanation wouldn't
> hu
On 2012-12-30, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
> All packages should have local descriptions of what the bindist
> USE-flag specifically does. This should be a policy when writing
> ebuilds that include it.
Agreed, as a gentoo user, I like to know why is the flag there.
> The bindist USE-flag is for a
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On 30/12/12 12:39, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> On 30/12/2012 04:03, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> That would be much more effective than a policy that may be
>> (accidentally) ignored.
>
> +1
+1 from me as well. A much simpler and reliable way of achievin
On 30/12/2012 02:24, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> rough poll: how many people actually care about nscd ? i'm making it into a
> USE flag for glibc-2.17 and it's easiest for me to do IUSE=nscd which means
> it'd default to off.
I use it on my servers, but I'm fine with turning it on myself.
You still
On 30/12/2012 04:03, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> That would be much more effective than a policy that may be
> (accidentally) ignored.
+1
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> rough poll: how many people actually care about nscd ? i'm making it into a
> USE flag for glibc-2.17 and it's easiest for me to do IUSE=nscd which means
> it'd default to off.
> -mike
To be fair, in my large enterprise deployment we have
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Michael Weber wrote:
> On 12/30/2012 02:24 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> rough poll: how many people actually care about nscd ?
> I use it for some pam_ldap machines
>
>> ... it'd default to off.
> fine with me, I'll turn it on / need it for `ls -l /home` not taking
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