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From: Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:44:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4270E8D4.3060308@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050428134122.GC19892@toucan.gentoo.org>

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Cory Visi wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:30:03AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'd like to propose a new global USE flag named 'logrotate' to add
>>support for app-admin/logrotate (by installing logrotate config files
>>to /etc/logrotate.d/).
>>
>>There are currently one local USE flag named logrotate in
>>net-proxy/squid, which of course isn't enough to justify having a global
>>USE flag - but it seems other packages, at least app-admin/syslog-ng,
>>currently unconditionally install a config file to /etc/logrotate.d/.
>>
>>There are 4 open enhancement requests in Gentoo bugzilla about ebuilds
>>which could install such a config file, and I am sure many other ebuilds
>>could as well (anything that logs to a file).
>>
>>If there are no objections to this I will make 'logrotate' a global USE
>>flag once I add a logrotate config file to sys-power/acpid.
> 
> 
> Why do we even need a USE flag for this? The logrotate config files are 
> max, 4k. Just include the config file with your ebuild, which is what I 
> have done up until now. A user can either run logrotate or not. This 
> isn't about turning on a feature, it's about saving 4k. I don't think 
> it's worth it; I feel like USE flags are getting completely out of 
> control.

Not everyone uses logrotate (its optional in system now) so they may not want
those files. Thats how I view it at least.

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Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Infrastructure | Operational Manager

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-28 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-28  8:30 [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-04-28  8:51 ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-04-28 10:34   ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-04-28 10:44     ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-04-28 11:01       ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-04-28 11:01       ` Henrik Brix Andersen
2005-04-28 14:00         ` Mike Frysinger
2005-04-28 14:08           ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-04-28 12:05     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-28 12:56       ` Georgi Georgiev
2005-04-28 13:41 ` Cory Visi
2005-04-28 13:44   ` Lance Albertson [this message]
2005-04-28 13:47   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-28 15:23   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-28 15:51     ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-04-28 19:48 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-04-28 20:16   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-04-28 20:21     ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-04-28 22:18       ` Grant Goodyear
2005-04-28 22:28         ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-04-29  0:36           ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-29  0:43             ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-04-29 12:26             ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-29 13:25               ` Dan Meltzer
2005-04-29 13:55                 ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-29 15:52                   ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-29 16:17                     ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-29 17:26                       ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-29 17:25                     ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-29 17:46                       ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-29 18:03                         ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-29 15:32                 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-29 17:44             ` Robin H. Johnson
2005-04-29 18:06               ` Jason Stubbs
2005-04-29 18:59               ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-04-29 19:17               ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-04-29  9:32         ` Christian Birchinger
2005-04-28 22:32 ` Tom Wesley
2005-04-28 23:10 ` Spider
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-02  9:22 Tom Martin
2005-08-02 10:44 ` Anthony Gorecki
2005-08-02 12:17 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-08-02 17:04   ` Tom Martin
2005-08-02 17:24     ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-08-02 12:34 ` tomk
2005-08-02 16:48 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-08-02 17:01   ` Alec Warner
2005-08-02 17:33   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-08-02 17:48     ` Alec Joseph Warner
2005-08-02 17:59       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-08-02 17:52     ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-08-02 18:12       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-08-02 17:58   ` Alin Nastac
2005-08-03 23:50     ` Tom Martin

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