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 (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2MFaCwr006540 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:36:13 GMT Received: from jeeves.egr.msu.edu ([35.9.37.127] helo=egr.msu.edu) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDlQR-0000Py-CX for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:36:11 +0000 Received: from [35.9.140.117] (tokyo.dhcp.egr.msu.edu [35.9.140.117]) by egr.msu.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2MFaCIS003943 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:36:12 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <42403B6C.1@egr.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:36:12 -0500 From: Alec Warner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Macintosh/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/ftp VS /home/ftp References: <20050320234905.77953d16@localhost> <20050321215807.GB28215@phaenix.haell.com> <1111443555.11549.6.camel@localhost> <200503212027.24656.vapier@gentoo.org> <423FCC87.8020109@gentoo.org> <8953a1db0503220425509a553d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <8953a1db0503220425509a553d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 18cfaff4-6bda-47a3-9bbe-013e78bd154a X-Archives-Hash: 61c0afc0408edcf4917086898ff5006e Paul Waring wrote: >On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:43:03 +0100, Sven Vermeulen wrote: > > >>Mike Frysinger wrote: >>""" >>/srv will be supported via a USE flag. This gives users the choice of >>using a dedicated service home hierarchy or not. >>""" >> >>In other words, I wouldn't know why anyone would be against this, unless >>the implementation would be cumbersome. But if developers are happy to >>work on this, why not. >> >> > >Provided that the USE flag is switched off by default (so I don't have >to go messing around with make.conf because someone thought putting >stuff in /src was a good idea) I'm not too fussed. > >Paul > > > Whether it's off or on by default should be of no consequence, unless of course you aren't paying attention when you install anything? :) Thats why there is emerge -pv, so you see what you are about to do. Could be nice to see a gentoo-announce e-mail once it's in effect though. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list