232951 2008-07-25 18:08 0000 Please consider USE-defaulting urandom for dev-libs/apr 2008-08-29 12:34:50 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds unspecified All Linux RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 leio@gentoo.org apache-bugs@gentoo.org leio@gentoo.org 2008-07-25 18:08:51 0000 Please consider making USE=urandom the default for dev-libs/apr with +urandom in IUSE. This of course involves declaring EAPI=1 on the top. Not using urandom can cause all kinds of issues, of which I have suffered from /dev/random entropy running out and apache startup stalling for a long time. This is a request for serious consideration - I don't know all the implications of using /dev/urandom instead of /dev/random - for example if a platform supports hardware RNG, is it exposed to either of those (that would be preferred then), etc? It seems bug 118054 suggested /dev/random is better IF it works. It also suggested that a warning should at least be added for users to know of the issues, but that was ignored or lost over time. hollow@gentoo.org 2008-08-29 12:34:50 0000 fixed in 1.3.3