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 j3SMHDI9017868 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:17:13 GMT Received: from bmb24.med.uth.tmc.edu ([129.106.207.24] helo=localhost) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DRHJp-0003sJ-3l for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 22:17:13 +0000 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 17:18:07 -0500 From: Grant Goodyear To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate Message-ID: <20050428221807.GV6913@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <1114677003.14869.14.camel@sponge.fungus> <42713E24.10201@gentoo.org> <20050428211606.7677c8f8@snowdrop> <427145DE.1050506@gentoo.org> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q6STzHxy03qt/hK9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <427145DE.1050506@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: af6e941a-6c6f-498b-af2f-5ad79503da0e X-Archives-Hash: b799ff6a4bfdeaf97ac0092d6e4b6ad1 --Q6STzHxy03qt/hK9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Donnie Berkholz wrote: [Thu Apr 28 2005, 03:21:50PM CDT] > Yes. Or don't install it at all, and let people create their own. This > is a dumb USE flag. I'd say that "dumb USE flag" is rather harsh. It seems clear that (a) many users would like a logrotate script installed for them, and since it's not all that difficult we should probably oblige, and that (b) some users won't want any logrotate scripts installed. Most optional things of this sort or handled by USE flags, although I'll grant that sometimes we decide by fiat that things should be done a certain way because making something optional is just too much work for too little gain. As an aside, my preference would be to install them by default, but allow a nologrotate equivalent to "nodoc", "noinfo", or "noman". That would require hacking portage, though, which seems silly for something so trivial. Does anybody remember why we chose "nodoc", "noinfo", and "noman" instead of a generic INSTALL_MASK=3D"/usr/share/doc /usr/share/man ..." flag which could be more general? -g2boojum- --=20 Grant Goodyear=09 Gentoo Developer g2boojum@gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76 --Q6STzHxy03qt/hK9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCcWEfptxxUuD2W3YRAsZhAJoDM36j2AurgQUI/fd+GhjC2qmMAQCfbj/J v07AprK+3kOVfqWZUs1z45Q= =b8bX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q6STzHxy03qt/hK9-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list