On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:45 AM Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 1:59 AM Mikle Kolyada <zlog...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> >> >> On 10.09.2020 08:35, Hans de Graaff wrote: >> > On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 13:35 +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote: >> >> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/741380 >> > Could you provide a rationale for removing this? The bug only has a >> > single anecdotal report of a user who can run a desktop without it. I'm >> > not sure if that is reason enough to remove this. I guess we won't be >> > able to figure out easily how many of our desktop profile users are >> > actually using LDAP, but changing this may cause surprises and I'm not >> > sure if that's warranted. >> > >> > Hans >> >> >> Hi. >> >> It is dictated by common sense. >> >> >> I barely can imagine a case where you need ldap support in each and >> every package you install. > > > I can, but not in a desktop environment. In an enterprise environment you > will need it (but I'd expect folks to add it.) > The challenge is just in changing the default. E.g. we might not do it until > a new profile bump (e.g. do it in a 2020 or 2021 profile?)
I think a news item with some time delay would be sufficient to inform any enterprise admins so they can push a local config change.
