From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3SDfGLY013768 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:41:16 GMT Received: from merlin by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DR9Gc-0004Bv-9o for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:41:22 +0000 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:41:22 +0000 From: Cory Visi To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate Message-ID: <20050428134122.GC19892@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <1114677003.14869.14.camel@sponge.fungus> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1114677003.14869.14.camel@sponge.fungus> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 69885cb7-131c-4dc6-9ec0-93de5723efbc X-Archives-Hash: 60716d5837aa0ac6145de65dad3b060d On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:30:03AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose a new global USE flag named 'logrotate' to add > support for app-admin/logrotate (by installing logrotate config files > to /etc/logrotate.d/). > > There are currently one local USE flag named logrotate in > net-proxy/squid, which of course isn't enough to justify having a global > USE flag - but it seems other packages, at least app-admin/syslog-ng, > currently unconditionally install a config file to /etc/logrotate.d/. > > There are 4 open enhancement requests in Gentoo bugzilla about ebuilds > which could install such a config file, and I am sure many other ebuilds > could as well (anything that logs to a file). > > If there are no objections to this I will make 'logrotate' a global USE > flag once I add a logrotate config file to sys-power/acpid. Why do we even need a USE flag for this? The logrotate config files are max, 4k. Just include the config file with your ebuild, which is what I have done up until now. A user can either run logrotate or not. This isn't about turning on a feature, it's about saving 4k. I don't think it's worth it; I feel like USE flags are getting completely out of control. Please comment. Thanks, Cory -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list