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* [gentoo-dev] apache/web use flag?
@ 2003-07-07 19:43 Michael Cummings
  2003-07-07 19:58 ` Max Kalika
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From: Michael Cummings @ 2003-07-07 19:43 UTC (permalink / raw
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Coming across ebuild submissions that have optional parts depending on whether you have a web server installed (apache being the big example), but in looking through use.desc I only see a USE flag for apache2 - nothing for apache, or web, or www, what have you? Any opponents to some type of use flag along this nature? If not, any recommendations?

RobH - yeah, this is directed at alzabo :)

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* Re: [gentoo-dev] apache/web use flag?
  2003-07-07 19:43 [gentoo-dev] apache/web use flag? Michael Cummings
@ 2003-07-07 19:58 ` Max Kalika
  2003-07-08  8:36   ` [gentoo-dev] webmin flag..? " Stroller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Max Kalika @ 2003-07-07 19:58 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Michael Cummings, gentoo-dev

Quoting Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>:

> Coming across ebuild submissions that have optional parts depending on
> whether you have a web server installed (apache being the big example),
> but in looking through use.desc I only see a USE flag for apache2 -
> nothing for apache, or web, or www, what have you? Any opponents to some
> type of use flag along this nature? If not, any recommendations?

This would be vastly useful for many things (apcupsd/nut/xmltv/etc).

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* [gentoo-dev] webmin flag..? Re: apache/web use flag?
  2003-07-07 19:58 ` Max Kalika
@ 2003-07-08  8:36   ` Stroller
  2003-07-08  8:48     ` Paul de Vrieze
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stroller @ 2003-07-08  8:36 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

On 7/7/03 8:58 pm, "Max Kalika" <max+lists.gentoo-dev@lsit.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Quoting Michael Cummings <mcummings@gentoo.org>:
> 
>> Coming across ebuild submissions that have optional parts depending on
>> whether you have a web server installed (apache being the big example),
>> but in looking through use.desc I only see a USE flag for apache2 -
>> nothing for apache, or web, or www, what have you? Any opponents to some
>> type of use flag along this nature? If not, any recommendations?
> 
> This would be vastly useful for many things (apcupsd/nut/xmltv/etc).

It's early in the morning for me, so apologies if this is as blurry to read
as it is to write.

I'd really like to see a "webmin" USE flag.

I was really pleased when I first migrated to Mandrake Linux to find that
facilities like webmin & GUI Kconfiguraton tools were available, then
quickly found that all the best HOWTOs referred editing the config files in
a text editor.

vi / nano is now my first approach to configuring any new package
 - it's just easier that way, to edit the text files & know *exactly* what
I'm specifying, rather than relying on a GUI which may respond to a checkbox
in an unexpected manner, or make other simplifications for me.

I was consequently quite shocked when I emerged Samba, to find that the Swat
component is hard-wired into ebuild. Now, I'm not disputing that there may
be good reasons for this (I take it Swat is distributed as part of the Samba
package?), but I had emerge'd this beautiful, simple, non-GUI,
server-optimised Unix, and a certainly don't want such rubbish on my
system!!

-I do have Apache webserver on my Gentoo box, but I don't need ANY webbased
admin tools at all. Is there any chance of a global "webmin" flag to deal
with this..?

Stroller.

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* Re: [gentoo-dev] webmin flag..? Re: apache/web use flag?
  2003-07-08  8:36   ` [gentoo-dev] webmin flag..? " Stroller
@ 2003-07-08  8:48     ` Paul de Vrieze
  2003-07-09 11:09       ` Stroller
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2003-07-08  8:48 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:36, Stroller wrote:
> I was consequently quite shocked when I emerged Samba, to find that the
> Swat component is hard-wired into ebuild. Now, I'm not disputing that there
> may be good reasons for this (I take it Swat is distributed as part of the
> Samba package?), but I had emerge'd this beautiful, simple, non-GUI,
> server-optimised Unix, and a certainly don't want such rubbish on my
> system!!
>
> -I do have Apache webserver on my Gentoo box, but I don't need ANY webbased
> admin tools at all. Is there any chance of a global "webmin" flag to deal
> with this..?
>

Swat is indeed a part of samba itself. I think your suggestion to put it 
behind a useflag is a good one, so please submit a bug in that respect. Take 
note that swat is a standalone webserver that is run through inet.d.

Paul

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* Re: [gentoo-dev] webmin flag..? Re: apache/web use flag?
  2003-07-08  8:48     ` Paul de Vrieze
@ 2003-07-09 11:09       ` Stroller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stroller @ 2003-07-09 11:09 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Paul de Vrieze, gentoo-dev

On 8/7/03 9:48 am, "Paul de Vrieze" <pauldv@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:36, Stroller wrote:
>> I was consequently quite shocked when I emerged Samba, to find that the
>> Swat component is hard-wired into ebuild...
>> 
>> -I do have Apache webserver on my Gentoo box, but I don't need ANY webbased
>> admin tools at all. Is there any chance of a global "webmin" flag to deal
>> with this..?
>> 
> 
> Swat is indeed a part of samba itself. I think your suggestion to put it
> behind a useflag is a good one, so please submit a bug in that respect.

Thanks. Done. Bug 24153 has been added to the database.

Stroller.

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