From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3TCQP7D032457 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:26:26 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp03.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id j3TCQT7Z006577 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:26:29 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:26:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200504290936.54086.jstubbs@gentoo.org> References: <1114677003.14869.14.camel@sponge.fungus> <20050428221807.GV6913@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <42716395.8010606@gentoo.org> <200504290936.54086.jstubbs@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-oMVlk0cu2HNZdknN4+8b" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 08:26:13 -0400 Message-Id: <1114777573.889.104.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 X-Archives-Salt: caf2c51c-6aa9-4934-bcc7-48afa950cd28 X-Archives-Hash: df4d5eab93c4ef0f2d3770c8d04caeb5 --=-oMVlk0cu2HNZdknN4+8b Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:36 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > In fact, I've thought many times about supplying "pre-packages" that ar= e > > no more than a collection of all the config files for a given package. >=20 > What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect pl= ace=20 > for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this featu= re=20 > is mysql. There are way more possibilities. I use it fairly regularly. I know that we use it on any game that requires a CD key, and also for VMWare (I bet most people don't know that!) to configure the modules. I hadn't considered using it for actually configuring a package (duh!) but that really is a very cool idea. Imagine if we started doing this for more packages. It would remove one of the primary complaints people have about Gentoo being "too hard" since they don't know "what to do next" after they emerge a package. If we got people used to "ebuild [ebuild] config", then we could remove a good bit of the issue. Just an idea, but one I'll probably be using more often now. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-oMVlk0cu2HNZdknN4+8b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCciflkT4lNIS36YERAmY3AJ0XSp9oVp2a83N7utNc0DOpYpaWMgCguNaC 6WVEkszZEWRV6uA5xDMc7cQ= =gdTS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-oMVlk0cu2HNZdknN4+8b-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list