Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] enable USE=xattr by default

2015-10-14 Thread Jason Zaman
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 11:48:07PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > USE=xattr is needed nowadays to support: > - filesystem caps (those things that let you drop set*id and generally > improves system security w/little to no runtime overhead) > - PaX file markings (replaces binutils ELF markings) >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] drop iputils from @system (i.e. ping)

2015-10-14 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On 2015-10-14, at 23:39, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > iputils is currently in @system for everyone. by default, it only > installs `ping`. do we feel strongly enough about this to require > all systems include it ? or should this wait for the long idea of > releasing stage4's instead of stage3

[gentoo-dev] [rfc] enable USE=xattr by default

2015-10-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
USE=xattr is needed nowadays to support: - filesystem caps (those things that let you drop set*id and generally improves system security w/little to no runtime overhead) - PaX file markings (replaces binutils ELF markings) - selinux we actually have USE=filecaps on by default already, and cataly

[gentoo-dev] [rfc] drop iputils from @system (i.e. ping)

2015-10-14 Thread Mike Frysinger
iputils is currently in @system for everyone. by default, it only installs `ping`. do we feel strongly enough about this to require all systems include it ? or should this wait for the long idea of releasing stage4's instead of stage3's ? -mike signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] metadata: add slots element

2015-10-14 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 05:39 AM, hasufell wrote: > On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: >> >> that would work too, but dtd provides standardization, and >> avoids duplicating package-wide information (meaning of >> slot/subslot) in every single ebuild

Re: [gentoo-dev] Python 3.5 is in, Python 3.3 deprecation

2015-10-14 Thread Michał Górny
(putting this on announcement board since it seems to be a major misunderstanding that causes a lot of extra work) Dnia 2015-10-04, o godz. 10:11:48 Mike Gilbert napisał(a): > Python 3.5 has been added to ~arch this morning. Please feel free to > test and add python3_5 to PYTHON_COMPAT as approp