Bug 347193

Summary:	net-misc/openssh: Enable USE=hpn by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) <darkside>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507210 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634594
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Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2010-11-29 16:16:42 UTC

- I use hpn on all my boxes, it never causes issues.
- There are no open bugs for hpn.
- There are no added deps for hpn support (just a patch dl)

Would there be any downside to enabling hpn by default? (IUSE default)

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2010-11-30 01:35:47 UTC

The problem with enabling it by default, is that when there is a new upstream OpenSSH release, it usually takes me at least a few days to get the new version out. I've been feeding it back to upstream for more than a year, and they take my contributions on it.

If you then upgrade to a version w/ no HPN support, we don't fail out, and you'd wonder why your performance had dropped so much. I say we require users to explicitly enable it.

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2010-11-30 01:47:35 UTC

Maybe I haven't paid attention. How does the user know if it failed or not but emerge completes successfully?

Comment 3 Robin Johnson archtester

2010-11-30 02:44:33 UTC

Hmm, I missed that we do now fail out if you want USE=hpn but it's not yet available on that version.

Comment 4 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2010-12-09 10:12:05 UTC

i think we will want to default USE=hpn when it's available.  otherwise, every upgrade will fail for everyone who doesnt have an explicit USE=-hpn.

IUSE="${HPN_PATCH:++}hpn ....."

Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-02-05 19:08:32 UTC

added my last suggestion with 5.8p1