On 04/21/2012 07:05 AM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'd like to remove USE="-unicode" from make.defaults at the root level
of all hardened profiles. The request came from jmbsvicetto because he
required it for the hardened stages to build, but to be honest, I don't
know why we have it disabled in hardened and its probably leftover cruft
from days gone by.
Any reason not to, else its gone.
Okay, I will remove it in a minute. Answering some points:
1) Not a news item. News items IMHO are for things that require
significant user intervention, eg. when I changed up the entire profile
structure and the user had to eselect profile.
2) I'm only changing the default, so for those who still want unicode
off, you can still do USE=-unicode in you make.conf
3) I agree that hardened should be mostly off by default. Eg. ipv6 is
off by default. But as pressure mounts the switch to on by default may
have to occur as it has now with unicode and will happen some day with ipv6.
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened]
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