On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:47 AM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2018, 23:51:17 CEST schrieb Ben Kohler: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to propose adding USE=udev to our linux profiles (in > > profiles/default/linux/make.defaults probably). This flag is already > > enabled on desktop profiles but it also affects quite a few packages > > > > Any objections to this idea? > > We removed the dedicated "server profiles" and told everyone > "Don't ever use -*"; if you want to have a sane minimal set of features use > the base profile as e.g. default/linux/amd64/17.0". > > If with USE=udev this profile still fulfills the definition of "sane minimal > set of features", then it's fine. > > (Keep in mind, we have all sorts of people out there running gentoo not only > on desktops or beefy servers.) > > Otherwise it should stay in desktop profile.
USE="udev" is a sane default for anything that will be running on real or emulated hardware. It might not be necessary for containers, which don't do any hardware management.
