Bug 216523 – util-linux-2.13.1 changes USE flags and breaks systems with a silent log entry

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Another Mortal 2008-04-06 12:27:17 UTC]

The ebuild for util-linux-2.13.1 stopped honoring the crypt
USE flag in preference for the otherwise much clearer and
more descriptive loop-aes USE flag.  Unfortunately, this change
has been implemented with only a silent 'elog' entry and no
transitional period.  Given the criticality of this flag for
(some) people's systems, a gentler approach to introduce this
change would have been to WARN people and allow for a transitional
period with BOTH flags accepted.

I'll attach my proposed patch for the ebuild.  (Hmm... shouldn't
this be possible right away, when filing a bug?)

[Comment 1 Another Mortal 2008-04-06 12:28:52 UTC]

Created attachment 148852 [details, diff]
Patch for a more gentle ebuild to allow breaking fewer systems for those of us with attention deficit

For the benefit of the paranoid, who have most of their system encrypted,
but fail to read every single line printed by emerge...

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2008-04-06 22:33:38 UTC]

i'm not putting things back under USE=crypt

read your messages, they're there for a reason

[Comment 3 Another Mortal 2008-04-07 09:19:19 UTC]

Whatever...  it's your call.


I still think that

 - changing critical flags without proper warning
   and a transitional period allowing both variants
   to work is a bad idea;

 - at a minimum, 'elog' should be changed to 'ewarn';
   so, that the message gets picked up and repeated
   _in_a_visually_obvious_manner_ (i.e. NOT all green)
   at the end of a long build.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2008-04-07 17:50:19 UTC]

i'll make the ewarn change, but that's it