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Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: [Thu Apr 28 2005, 03:21:50PM CDT] |
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>>Yes. Or don't install it at all, and let people create their own. This |
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>>is a dumb USE flag. |
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> I'd say that "dumb USE flag" is rather harsh. It seems clear that (a) |
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> many users would like a logrotate script installed for them, and since |
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> it's not all that difficult we should probably oblige, and that (b) some |
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> users won't want any logrotate scripts installed. Most optional things |
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> of this sort or handled by USE flags, although I'll grant that sometimes |
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> we decide by fiat that things should be done a certain way because |
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> making something optional is just too much work for too little gain. |
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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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> 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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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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