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 (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j3SDj8QB017235 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:45:08 GMT Received: from [12.10.10.250] (helo=[127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DR9KM-0001Af-KD for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:45:14 +0000 Message-ID: <4270E8D4.3060308@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:44:52 -0500 From: Lance Albertson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/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@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate References: <1114677003.14869.14.camel@sponge.fungus> <20050428134122.GC19892@toucan.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20050428134122.GC19892@toucan.gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig7D55C73397A53CE87E1D90F2" X-Archives-Salt: 3964a8a8-2a84-4c43-803f-f56ed86c0368 X-Archives-Hash: baded693f3507a23fa2ca69d015a7377 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig7D55C73397A53CE87E1D90F2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --------------enig7D55C73397A53CE87E1D90F2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) iD8DBQFCcOjUQW+hXSf0t0IRAmfOAJwIgPC9knqvM93VrNomoOeFiwe1CACg9TmL dGNl2kaHP+mDB2w29PN0ISw= =MEO/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig7D55C73397A53CE87E1D90F2-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list