From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E01AL-0002FE-FE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:07:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j72I5LLq026261; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:05:21 GMT Received: from smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j72HxSkh008038 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:59:29 GMT Received: from snowdrop.home ([82.41.57.20]) by smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:00:36 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:59:38 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate Message-ID: <20050802185938.0285dc29@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <42EFB1E1.6080208@egr.msu.edu> References: <20050802092201.GB13310@pohl> <42EFA3D9.1030603@gentoo.org> <20050802183330.07d9a458@snowdrop.home> <42EFB1E1.6080208@egr.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2005 18:00:36.0483 (UTC) FILETIME=[15AD6D30:01C5978C] X-Archives-Salt: 6643860c-1209-44ce-a1c3-0bb997f6ed19 X-Archives-Hash: c2dadff7ed1d8484e5203bfa65bc064f On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:48:17 -0400 Alec Joseph Warner wrote: | > Files in /etc are expensive in terms of sysadmin time. The only | > things in /etc should be things that are both necessary and likely | > to be modified by a sysadmin. | > | And who makes that call, shouldn't the sysadmin decide what is | necessary in /etc and what is not? Sure. The sysadmin makes the call via USE. | Why shouldn't portage just install stuff in /etc and let the sysadmin | figure out what needs to be there via INSTALL_MASK? We already have a perfectly good mechanism for handling optional components of packages. INSTALL_MASK isn't something that should be encouraged -- it's not a 'safe' setting. -- Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list