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 j3SJmikc017204 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:48:45 GMT Received: from c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net ([67.171.150.177] helo=[192.168.1.106]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DRF0G-0008Vi-CQ for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 19:48:52 +0000 Message-ID: <42713E24.10201@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:48:52 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050411) 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> In-Reply-To: <1114677003.14869.14.camel@sponge.fungus> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f9d96b7f-bb25-4e6f-be05-3fbd28ffdb4d X-Archives-Hash: 5a89a2eed87625ad45304cde0965284a -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. How annoying is it for someone to remerge a package just to get a logrotate file? I suggest that if you're going to install it at all, do it unconditionally. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCcT4kXVaO67S1rtsRAo/HAKDJQWZtnd/pWgQLqBFLmBiU2QOv9gCgujMW irWQDLH7J/RECXhVBkNExtE= =0fG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list