Re: [gentoo-dev] kerberos USE flag

[Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 19:22 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Mart Raudsepp wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 15:50 -0600, Joe Peterson wrote:
> >> Michael Hammer wrote:
> >>> * Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> [081031 15:53]:
> >>>> If no one opposes, I say we redact this USE flag asap.
> >>> ++
> >> I was also wondering why kerberos was on by default - I definitely
> >> approve of nuking it.
> > 
> > I'm believe the primary reason is for release LiveCD's.
> > They ship with evolution-exchange, and that requires
> > evolution/evolution-data-server to be built with USE=kerberos
> > They don't do /etc/portage business, so it's a global USE flag to get
> > things like GRP packages to work right.
> 
> If that's the case, then I say whack it from global USE and change it to an IUSE 
> default (or whatever is in vogue these days) for eds.

From GNOME teams perspective I don't believe that is a good idea. Users
wanting exchange support aren't hardly the majority of evolution users.

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Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@gentoo.org
Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio

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