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On Friday 29 April 2005 07:28, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> My problem with it is that Joe User, who doesn't do ebuilds, will change |
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> his USE flags and recompile an entire package just to get a little |
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> logrotate file that has nothing to do with the source of the package |
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> itself. This waste of time is pointless, which is why I call the USE |
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> flag dumb. |
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> I'd prefer to have some package that's just a collection of logrotate |
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> files for a ton of packages, if there's some reason a ~400-byte file is |
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> just killing your system. Or a separate package for each file. Doesn't |
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> matter to me. |
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> In fact, I've thought many times about supplying "pre-packages" that are |
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> no more than a collection of all the config files for a given package. |
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What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect place |
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for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this feature |
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is mysql. There are way more possibilities. |
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> > As an aside, my preference would be to install them by default, but |
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> > allow a nologrotate equivalent to "nodoc", "noinfo", or "noman". That |
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> > would require hacking portage, though, which seems silly for something |
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> > so trivial. Does anybody remember why we chose "nodoc", "noinfo", and |
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> > "noman" instead of a generic INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/doc |
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> > /usr/share/man ..." flag which could be more general? |
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> There does appear to also be an INSTALL_MASK. I just grepped |
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> /usr/lib/portage for it. |
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Iggy's (is that his real name?) request. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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