On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 16:57 +0200, Thomas Kahle wrote:
> On 13:13 Sun 27 Mar     , "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> > FEATURES=digest results in a scary warning and a possibly dangerous
> > re-generation of manifests at the beginning of every emerge:
> > 
> >  * The FEATURES=digest setting can prevent corruption from being noticed.
> >  * The `repoman manifest` command is the preferred way to generate
> >  * manifests and it is capable of doing an entire repository or category at
> >  * once.
> > 
> > However, FEATURES=digest is enabled in the developer profile, and only
> > in that profile:
> > 
> > $ egrep '^FEATURES=.*digest' -r /usr/portage/profiles/
> > /usr/portage/profiles/targets/developer/make.defaults:FEATURES="collision-protect
> > digest multilib-strict sign splitdebug stricter test test-fail-continue
> > userpriv usersandbox"
> > 
> > I'd like to suggest removing "digest" from the line above. I've been
> > running with the developer profile and -digest in /etc/make.conf, and
> > everything is working fine.
> 
> +1.
> 
> I disabled it on the first day and never had any issues.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 

I guess the real question here is: why was it enabled?