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. -- Lance Albertson Gentoo Infrastructure | Operational Manager --- Public GPG key: Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net