From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E00vu-0006lW-U1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:52:07 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j72Hovh1025932; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:50:57 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j72HmtBi017413 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:48:56 GMT Received: from [35.9.36.120] (dhcp-35-9-36-120 [35.9.36.120]) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j72HnHdx018404 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:49:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42EFB1E1.6080208@egr.msu.edu> Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:48:17 -0400 From: Alec Joseph Warner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) 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: <20050802092201.GB13310@pohl> <42EFA3D9.1030603@gentoo.org> <20050802183330.07d9a458@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20050802183330.07d9a458@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c781fcc3-d621-4193-88b4-edf0f51d551a X-Archives-Hash: 49ba06d8586f7fe4c9a20c2d65999246 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:48:25 -0700 Donnie Berkholz > wrote: > | Tom Martin wrote: > | | Hi list, > | | > | | Bug 97447 wants a logrotate USE flag, which is used by about five > | | packages locally. Unless there are any objections, I'll globalify it > | | later today. > | > | I think this flag is a bad idea. Why should I have to recompile a > | package to get some files that go in /etc? Either install them > | unconditionally or don't install them at all. > > Files in /etc are expensive in terms of sysadmin time. The only things > in /etc should be things that are both necessary and likely to be > modified by a sysadmin. > And who makes that call, shouldn't the sysadmin decide what is necessary in /etc and what is not? Why shouldn't portage just install stuff in /etc and let the sysadmin figure out what needs to be there via INSTALL_MASK? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list