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 j3T0b6oF031851 for ; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:37:06 GMT Received: from p061198140198.ppp.prin.ne.jp ([61.198.140.198] helo=linux.box) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DRJVB-0007hV-Fz for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:37:07 +0000 Received: by linux.box (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 93799467A5; Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:36:54 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:36:54 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <1114677003.14869.14.camel@sponge.fungus> <20050428221807.GV6913@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <42716395.8010606@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <42716395.8010606@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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504290936.54086.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9ce05ee7-a946-41f6-809a-7224d53d9934 X-Archives-Hash: b5de7f2692d11fa90eb026f6357ce7a1 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list