Lindsay Haisley wrote: > Here are a couple of thoughts. There's a single ldap USE flag spec'd for > Gentoo. There are, however, several widely different ways in which ldap can > be > used. For instance, although I have ldap in my USE flags for my desktop > system, I don't want to use ldap authentication, nor do I want the system to > even try to use it. I do want ldap capabilities in applications such as > evolution, and ldap clients, and proper schemas installed by various such > applilcations which can take advantage of them. Perhaps rather than a single > "ldap" USE flag, there need to be at least a couple - "ldap-auth", > "ldap-client", etc.
Propose this to the LDAP maintainers or gentoo-dev. It probably won't be heard and heeded in this forum. > One of the disadvantages of Gentoo is that it follows the open source maxim > "release early, release often" pretty literally. The choices are either to > keep an identical non-production server around as a test bed or to not try to > keep up2date on stuff once the system is stable. I do live dangerously, and > reserve the right to whine about it when I get my butt bitten ;-) One of the > advantages of Gentoo is that the dev community and forums are generally very > helpful in solving stuff when things break. bugs.gentoo.org is a great > resource to which I successfully turn more often than I would wish. You should always have a test-bed for production servers, regardless of which distro you're using. > Yeah, this bug has been outstanding for many months. I put a version cap in > packages.mask on nss_ldap and a comment referencing the bug report. It looks > as if Greg KH and other devs can't quite agree on where the responsibility > lies > for this one. Greg KH agreed on gentoo-dev that it was a problem in udev, but he didn't and still doesn't have the time to fix it and is waiting for a patch. Thanks, Donnie
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