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Bug#: 232951
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
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Reporter: Mart Raudsepp <leio@gentoo.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2008-07-25 18:08 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.

------- Comment #1 From Benedikt Böhm 2008-08-29 12:34:50 0000 -------
fixed in 1.3.3

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