Re: [gentoo-dev] newsitem: openrc-0.28 mounts efivars read only

2017-07-13 Thread DarKRaveR
Am 12.07.2017 um 22:03 schrieb Mike Gilbert: On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:42 AM, William Hubbs wrote: OpenRC 0.28 will mount efivars read only by default due to concerns about users bricking systems by writing to this filesystem unexpectedly. Here is the newsitem covering this change. William

Re: [gentoo-dev] News item for Exim 4.88

2017-03-01 Thread DarKRaveR
On a sidenote (from a user perspective), 4.88 dropped some deprecated features. Shouldn't that have been announced aswell? And why wasn't 4.87 kept as old stable version? Afterall there was a 4.87.1 release with no feature change but CVE fix applied. Regards -Sven Am 01.03.2017 um 21:04

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-08-05 Thread DarKRaveR
Historically those DIRs contained all utils/tools to manage the system and fix problems etc. when you are unable to get /usr up, i.e. when it's remote. The rootfs basically contained all the core system-tools minus all the apps, which usually were managed centrally. With bbox of course one could

Re: [gentoo-dev] Warn users not to do separate /usr partition without proper initramfs in the handbook?

2011-07-30 Thread DarKRaveR
Certainly a good point - you don't want to spoil a SSD-RAID-set's performance by encrypting /usr but there is surely a strong need to encrypt /etc and thus /, which has a rather neglectable impact on performance of a system. I'd even say that in a lot of environments splitting / and /usr is more co

[gentoo-dev] LDAP use flag / openssh

2008-07-15 Thread DarKRaveR
Hi List, first of, I am no dev, but I was really wondering, why ldap is a default useflag in the 2008.0 desktop profile, maybe someone could enlighten me? I am especially wondering, why would the average desktop user want LDAP but not samba, for CIFS etc. ? I guess, the ways, of the devs are