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* Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
  @ 2005-04-28 19:48 99% ` Donnie Berkholz
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From: Donnie Berkholz @ 2005-04-28 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw
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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.
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