Bug 771540

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: make.conf documentation about security.* exclusion is incorrect, and PORTAGE_XATTR_EXCLUDE="security.* -security.capability" is desirable
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Zac Medico <zmedico>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo.org, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	548516
Bug Blocks:	193766

Description Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2021-02-19 01:32:27 UTC

We've been using individual security.* excludes since bug 548516, because the need to allow security.capability prevents us from excluding security.* by default. We can solve this problem by adding support for things like PORTAGE_XATTR_EXCLUDE="security.* -security.capability" like INSTALL_MASK.