>>>>> On Tue, 22 Jun 2021, Marek Szuba wrote: > Seeing as in the end this USE flag is not going anywhere in spite of > Gentoo no longer providing PaX-capable kernel sources, could we please > rename it (e.g. to 'pax-kernel') so that it no longer contains a > disallowed character. I understand the main reason this hasn't been > done yet is that we expected it might disappear altogether.
+1 for renaming to pax-kernel. A related question, the pax_kernel flag is still used by these packages: app-emulation/virtualbox app-emulation/virtualbox-modules dev-java/icedtea dev-lang/mlton dev-lang/mono dev-lang/smlnj dev-libs/libffi dev-libs/libffi-compat media-sound/spotify net-libs/nodejs From my past experience with PaX support in Emacs, things used to break on a regular basis [1]. So I wonder, how is the status of PaX support in the packages listed above? Do their maintainers actually test them with a PaX kernel (which would be a third-party kernel, I suppose)? If not, maybe the flag should be removed from these untested packages? Ulrich [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/4b5000ef34b506e536b7841ffa17aa39
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