I usually install cdrdao suid root so it can use real-time scheduling. Since that might not be wanted for all installations, I'd love to have an useflag controlling the permissions of the installed executable. (instead of re-setting them every time I update) (Just the way the "artswrappersuid" USE flag controls the suid bit of artswrapper from kde-base/arts) Gentoo has (I think from baselayout) a group "cdrw", which is meant to contain the users allowed to burn CDs, so permissions like ls -la /usr/bin/cdr* -rwsr-x--- 1 root cdrw 814181 Jan 3 18:29 /usr/bin/cdrdao -rwsr-x--- 1 root cdrw 397032 Dec 10 15:20 /usr/bin/cdrecord seem sensible to me. Without the useflag keep things as-is, of course, to not break existing installations.
>(Just the way the "artswrappersuid" USE flag controls the suid bit of artswrapper from kde-base/arts) And that's one of those dead old flags, which shouldn't exist. It's way to harmful for users not understanding what such a use flag implies. media-optical herd: If necessary, take a post install message into account, but do not add such a use flag, please. We had a few bugs of this sort in the past and also a gentoo-dev discussion iirc and the general consent is that suid use flags are strongly discountenanced.
Yes i agree with Carlo this useflag makes no sense. I'm working on a project page for media-optical that will contain documentation about this issue.
*** Bug 163457 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
