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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:34:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060831163424.GG27520@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060831163721.5692fd91@snowdrop.home>

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Thu Aug 31 2006, 10:37:21AM CDT]
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:58:20 +0200 Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | I think we agreed at least 3 times on that the logrotate use flag
> | shouldn't exist at all because those files add <4kb to the package.
> 
> No we didn't. It's another file in /etc, which is entirely different
> from another file not in /etc.

My recollection was that the argument against having a logrotate USE
flag that meant "please install a logrotate script" was that it was
unnecessary since the user could just mask out /etc/logrotate.d
instead (using INSTALL_MASK) if those scripts weren't desired.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-31 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-31 14:24 [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2006-08-31 14:29 ` Chris White
2006-08-31 14:51   ` Steve Dibb
2006-08-31 14:58     ` Simon Stelling
2006-08-31 15:16       ` Carsten Lohrke
2006-08-31 15:37       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-31 16:34         ` Grant Goodyear [this message]
2006-08-31 15:55       ` Alin Nastac
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2006-09-01 23:11 arfrever

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