Bug 553612

Summary:	sys-apps/systemd needs smack USE flag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Reuben Martin <reuben.m>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo systemd Team <systemd>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Reuben Martin 2015-06-30 01:58:04 UTC

The feature is being enabled by default even if there is no purpose for it.

According to:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028129.html

"turn it off during build-time if you don't want it. Use
--disable-smack. It is enabled by default, since all features we
consider stable are enabled by default unless their library
dependencies are missing. Since SMACK so far didn't require any
library it hence is effectively always on unless you explicitly turn
it off..."


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2015-06-30 03:10:02 UTC

What does disabling it accomplish? It seems that Lennart failed to answer that question.

Comment 2 Reuben Martin 2015-07-06 18:28:57 UTC

Well, good question. I have not been able to find anything that would suggest anything beyond a check to see if the kernel supports smack, and a slightly smaller binary.

I assumed that it changed the runtime behaviour. (Why else make it an optional feature?) But perhaps that assumption was premature.

I'll close it as "won't fix". If anybody finds a good reason to argue otherwise they can re-open it.