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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:43:17
Message-Id: 20060831163424.GG27520@feynman.corp.halliburton.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion: Globalness of some USE flags by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [Thu Aug 31 2006, 10:37:21AM CDT]
2 > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:58:20 +0200 Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 > | I think we agreed at least 3 times on that the logrotate use flag
5 > | shouldn't exist at all because those files add <4kb to the package.
6 >
7 > No we didn't. It's another file in /etc, which is entirely different
8 > from another file not in /etc.
9
10 My recollection was that the argument against having a logrotate USE
11 flag that meant "please install a logrotate script" was that it was
12 unnecessary since the user could just mask out /etc/logrotate.d
13 instead (using INSTALL_MASK) if those scripts weren't desired.
14
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