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 default to off. > > To be fair, in my large enterprise deployment we have turned nscd off > for years. However my guess is that this is cargo cult from 2002-esque > bugs in nscd; I'm curious why we would turn it off by default?
because i suspect it's dead weight for most people, especially desktop users. for people doing server deployments, i also expect those who know about nscd in the first place and actually want it can handle enabling it manually. -mike
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