Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional

2012-12-30 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Michael Weber x...@gentoo.org 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`

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional

2012-12-30 Thread Alec Warner
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 30/12/2012 04:03, Mike Gilbert wrote: That would be much more effective than a policy that may be (accidentally) ignored. +1 -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional

2012-12-30 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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 achieving what

[gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva
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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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 hurt

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 14:07:04 +0100 Alexander Berntsen alexan...@plaimi.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 12:42:23 +0100 Alexander Berntsen alexan...@plaimi.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Alexander Berntsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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 output

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:01:52 -0300 Alexis Ballier aball...@gentoo.org 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Local bindist descriptions

2012-12-30 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 15:10:21 +0100 Alexander Berntsen alexan...@plaimi.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional

2012-12-30 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 30 December 2012 03:46:01 Alec Warner wrote: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc-2.17: nscd is optional

2012-12-30 Thread Maxim Kammerer
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org 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

[gentoo-dev] Automated Package Removal and Addition Tracker, for the week ending 2012-12-30 23h59 UTC

2012-12-30 Thread Robin H. Johnson
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

[gentoo-dev] USE flag suid in both use.desc and use.local.desc

2012-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
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