From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E00Xx-0002qx-1o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:27:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j72HQMNs006243; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:26:22 GMT 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 j72HOfdq010621 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:24:42 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 j72HPVg1003529 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:25:32 -0400 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:24:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20050802170455.GB31514@pohl> References: <20050802092201.GB13310@pohl> <1122985028.18840.1.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <20050802170455.GB31514@pohl> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-1N5Hzzi7NaA6IVeTlB2f" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:24:51 -0400 Message-Id: <1123003492.18840.9.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 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: 0f85a0a9-8e34-4cf8-b8dd-23e3a0ba4ccf X-Archives-Hash: b68f4f4a7ce4eb05e51a9ded2b41b0f8 --=-1N5Hzzi7NaA6IVeTlB2f Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:04 +0100, Tom Martin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:17:08AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > If you make the flag global, can you make sure that all of the packages > > that use this flag exhibit the same behavior when using it. If they al= l > > do their own thing, then I would suggest leaving it local. > >=20 > > Global USE flags are not so much a case of x number of packages use it, > > but x number of package use it to mean the same thing. >=20 > I didn't realise that the flag was being used in more than one way -- > how else is it being used? I never said that it was... I just said to make sure to check... ;] Of course, I agree with everyone else that this shouldn't be a USE flag, at all. My personal opinion is that we install the logrotate.d files no matter what, and users can INSTALL_MASK it if they don't want it. After all, is the file installed by default upstream? If so, then why are we hiding it behind a USE flag in the first place? --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-1N5Hzzi7NaA6IVeTlB2f 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) iD8DBQBC76xjkT4lNIS36YERAvskAJ9g2DM/L4qdB6NsjhyNoSpqd9Po0gCdEBGX DohpyqqW/eGRLWFCLYmixDk= =xmNy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-1N5Hzzi7NaA6IVeTlB2f-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list