From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A125F1381F3 for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 20:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE8DFE0908; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 20:20:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ye0-f171.google.com (mail-ye0-f171.google.com [209.85.213.171]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 087B4E086D for ; Sat, 1 Jun 2013 20:20:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ye0-f171.google.com with SMTP id l2so708416yen.30 for ; Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:20:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=z6FB0Xe866/HVK9uYLiuYcSPQLnDGSi/eQCNOE2FJgE=; b=WBBp5/2AThWnB/dqqSqemOBwkkJnvc2/6eDNUc5vzzLMbCfUMdAKJVALbQoPcDGfiD jATPf9sDoJx4orfxwaIymA4H/RzxjvD0V34LNYUzNckvq3Sv9LXiXWhajZr2TYsR9woW A5MKCtDmu3IEEDRkx7TVrr1iv8kOcz4k2G9UFvRo+/FKw9kEEKSioeNjGOHyG7o6jgeP pm0gvUZaCwLlvJQF0C8OPqIpS/9BLPIEjjsGh39rTLloX+AXCgucymutScdq5t5JczaK 9Qt8mR1+aXNQm0tp1bgeTk4SjAacTWCGfdAD3Oy4etVMuuhVTa1O1cboytqeWG25gLCD IQpg== X-Received: by 10.236.189.40 with SMTP id b28mr10717279yhn.139.1370118036074; Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from linux1 (cpe-76-187-91-128.tx.res.rr.com. [76.187.91.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m74sm78107286yhm.0.2013.06.01.13.20.33 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:20:35 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: by linux1 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 01 Jun 2013 15:20:32 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 15:20:32 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: mgorny@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd Message-ID: <20130601202032.GA26164@linux1> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, mgorny@gentoo.org References: <51A3C431.7010900@gentoo.org> <20130528173513.50742051@gentoo.org> <51A4FDFF.3020103@gentoo.org> <20130528210737.42695fc9@gentoo.org> <20130528221540.GA2053@linux1> <20130530132359.04cf5815@sera-20.lan> <20130601174106.GA20043@linux1> <20130601200022.5b67b59f@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.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="IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130601200022.5b67b59f@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 14ee00b9-72b7-4064-ba63-72230ea75c91 X-Archives-Hash: 364395d6c1bb7d1d055c60173fe7e455 --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > If a switch only changes the default in a config file, a flag is > useless. =20 Ok, maybe so in this case. > If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional > dependencies, is small and can be toggled from within the app, a flag > is useless. =20 If someone never wants the feature in the first place, and they can save space and build time by not building or installing the man pages, executables, config files, etc for it, forcing it onto their systems is an unnecessary waste of build time and bloating their systems. > If a switch toggles a install of a tiny file which most people either > want or don't care about, a flag is useless. =20 This is possible, but I haven't seen any cases of this. William --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlGqV5AACgkQblQW9DDEZTi9rwCfXdSdOoHKmyR/slnVA+UujwYe yBsAnRAqAR9XuHPkbdwKx+hyZsMT8y8J =o7s2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6--