Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Friday 29 April 2005 07:28, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> My problem with it is that Joe User, who doesn't do ebuilds, will change
> his USE flags and recompile an entire package just to get a little
> logrotate file that has nothing to do with the source of the package
> itself. This waste of time is pointless, which is why I call the USE
> flag dumb.
>
> I'd prefer to have some package that's just a collection of logrotate
> files for a ton of packages, if there's some reason a ~400-byte file is
> just killing your system. Or a separate package for each file. Doesn't
> matter to me.
>
> In fact, I've thought many times about supplying "pre-packages" that are
> no more than a collection of all the config files for a given package.

What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect place 
for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this feature 
is mysql. There are way more possibilities.

> > 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="/usr/share/doc
> > /usr/share/man ..." flag which could be more general?

> There does appear to also be an INSTALL_MASK. I just grepped
> /usr/lib/portage for it.

Iggy's (is that his real name?) request.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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