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* Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
  @ 2005-04-28 13:44 99%   ` Lance Albertson
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From: Lance Albertson @ 2005-04-28 13:44 UTC (permalink / raw
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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.

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