Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:57:03 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:

> On 05/28/2013 11:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:38:09 -0400
> > "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and
> >> there is a notice in base/make.default to discuss use expand flags on
> >> the list first.  There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache
> >> which can be turned on/off by a configure switch. It makes sense to
> >> follow the same logic as apache here.  There are no dependencies on
> >> monkeyd and so no use-deps.  Seems very safe. Any objections?
> > Could you elaborate a bit more on the flags? Please list them, shortly
> > explain and tell us whether you expect the number of plugins to expand
> > and how fast.
> >
>
> Sorry I already committed this with Chainsaw's ack.  Anyhow, they are:
>
> auth - Provide HTTP Basic Authentication
> cheetah - Provide a shell-like command line interface
> #cgi - Provide the traditional CGI interface
> dirlisting - Show an HTML listing of the content of a directory
> #fastcgi - Provide FastCGI proxy support
> liana - Build your own network layer through monkeyd
> logger - Log requests and common errors
> mandril - Restrict incoming connections based on the IP address or URI
> request
> polarssl - Provide HTTPS using PolarSSL v1.*.

Shouldn't this one be tied to USE=ssl?

For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable?
At least some of them look like something that wouldn't hurt people if
it was always-built.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny