Re: [gentoo-dev] USE FLAG for DJBs daemontools

[Christian Wiese]

On Tuesday 25 February 2003 19:46, David Pavlotzky wrote:
> On Saturday 22 February 2003 19:23, Christian Wiese wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm a great fan of DJB's daemontools.
> > In my eyes it would be helpfull to have a USE FLAG for it, to
> > automaticaly build packages with daemontools support if possible.
> >
> > What do you think about it?
>
> I think this would be great. I also thought about this.
>
> It should probably be a virtual (I think portage supports this) thingy,
> since there are more DMD's.
>
> See:
>
> (http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/05/09/sysadminguide.html
>
> this way everybody can choose his favorite DMD. My vote  would be to call
> the USE flag "dmd"
>

Hi David,

I don't know if virtual packages are the right solution, because I'm fairly 
new to gentoo. Till know I've just scratched on the surface.
Perhaps somebody with more knowledge can help us?!?
The problems I see, are the differences in functionality and configurations 
between all the "DMD's", and how to figure out, which "DMD" is used by the 
system to install the right configuration and run scripts.
I just use daemontools at the moment, and I think this will not change the 
next time.
I've to take a closer look to the posibilities of virtual packages.

Christian

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