Re: [gentoo-dev] USE flag proposal: memcached

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 5/14/16 11:19 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> All,
>
> I want to add a "memcached" USE flag to mail-filters/rmilter. Before
> doing so, I looked if there was a global USE flag. There is not, but I
> though see usage across 14 packages:
>
> dev-db/pgpool2[memcached]: Use memcached for query caching
> dev-php/pecl-mysqlnd_qc[memcached]: Use
> <pkg>dev-libs/libmemcached</pkg> as a storage handler
> mail-filter/opendkim[memcached]: Add support for using
> <pkg>dev-libs/libmemcached</pkg>
> mail-mta/postfix[memcached]: Add support for using
> <pkg>net-misc/memcached</pkg> for lookup tables
> net-analyzer/graphite-web[memcached]: Enable memcached support
> net-analyzer/munin[memcached]: Install the packages required for
> memcached monitoring.
> net-mail/automx[memcached]: Enable memcached support
> sys-auth/keystone[memcached]: Installs dependencies needed for using
> memcached as a backend
> sys-cluster/cinder[memcached]: Installs the memcached server
> sys-cluster/gearmand[memcache]: Support memcache daemon (via
> <pkg>dev-libs/libmemcached</pkg>) for the queue storage.
> sys-cluster/nova[memcached]: Installs the memcached server
> sys-cluster/swift[memcached]: adds memcached support
> www-servers/lighttpd[memcache]: Enable memcache support for mod_cml
> and mod_trigger_b4_dl
>
> Most of these seem to depend on dev-libs/libmemcached or
> net-misc/memcached, with a few packages depending on language-specific
> stuff (e.g. dev-perl/Cache-Memcached or dev-python/python-memcached).
>
> I suppose the description can just be "Enable memcached support".
>
> Any objections?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirkjan
>

its a good idea given its popularity and the unequivocal meaning of
"memcached".  so i say do it.

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