* Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
@ 2005-04-29 12:26 99% ` Chris Gianelloni
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From: Chris Gianelloni @ 2005-04-29 12:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:36 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > In fact, I've thought many times about supplying "pre-packages" that are
> > no more than a collection of all the config files for a given package.
>
> What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect place
> for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this feature
> is mysql. There are way more possibilities.
I use it fairly regularly. I know that we use it on any game that
requires a CD key, and also for VMWare (I bet most people don't know
that!) to configure the modules.
I hadn't considered using it for actually configuring a package (duh!)
but that really is a very cool idea. Imagine if we started doing this
for more packages. It would remove one of the primary complaints people
have about Gentoo being "too hard" since they don't know "what to do
next" after they emerge a package. If we got people used to "ebuild
[ebuild] config", then we could remove a good bit of the issue.
Just an idea, but one I'll probably be using more often now.
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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux
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