The "session" USE flag is enabled by default for all linux profiles in default/linux/make.defaults: # 2010/10/21 - Ole Markus With <olemarkus@gentoo.org> # These USE flags were originally inserted here because of PHP # and were later removed by me. Reinserting the USE flags again because # they are global USE flags that may be expected to be set by other packages. USE="${USE} cli pcre session" The "session" flag has no standard meaning across packages, so it wasn't a great global flag in the first place. It may be useful for a few packages, but a better approach these days is to put "+session" in IUSE, or to force the flag in our profiles for specific packages (dev-lang/php is already dealt with). I suggest we disable USE=session by default. I'll eventually do that myself if no one objects after a long-enough period of time. I'm CCing the maintainers of all affected packages. If anyone would like us to wait until they've set "+session" in their ebuilds, please just file a blocker bug against this. Affected packages: * app-editors/gvim * app-misc/recoll * dev-php/agavi * mail-client/claws-mail * media-sound/patchage * net-irc/emech * x11-plugins/wmfire * x11-terms/mrxvt * x11-wm/openbox
Thanks for the heads-up! No update needed for x11-plugins/wmfire (on my list)
Created attachment 511706 [details, diff] 0001-profiles-unset-USE-session-in-default-linux-make.def.patch Proposed patch. I'll send it to the -dev list in a second, and commit it after a few days of no complaints.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=15490cb0fbb3a29dc024aa30b06fdcf06c23cf50 commit 15490cb0fbb3a29dc024aa30b06fdcf06c23cf50 Author: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-12-27 00:04:22 +0000 Commit: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-01-06 16:56:12 +0000 profiles: unset USE=session in default/linux/make.defaults. The "session" USE flag has been enabled by default for all linux profiles in default/linux/make.defaults since 2010. According to the comment in that file, the flag was added for dev-lang/php where session support is near-critical. But, now that we have an IUSE default, the global setting is redundant. This commit drops USE=session from the default/linux profile's make.defaults, and also drops the (now unnecessary) override of that flag in the features/hardened profile's make.defaults. A few other packages with "session" in IUSE will be affected by this change; however, the meaning of "session" varies wildly between the packages that use it. Since the meaning of "session" is dependent on the package in question, within the package itself (that is, with IUSE defaults) is a better place to enable this flag by default. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/635742 profiles/default/linux/make.defaults | 2 +- profiles/features/hardened/make.defaults | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
