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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default Ebuild behaviour
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:34:14
Message-Id: 20060201013209.GA139512@lion.gg3.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Default Ebuild behaviour by Donnie Berkholz
1 maillog: 31/01/2006-12:15:00(-0800): Donnie Berkholz types
2 > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:06:35 +0000 "Benjamin Smee (strerror)"
4 > > <strerror@g.o> wrote:
5 > > | On Tuesday 31 January 2006 15:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6 > > | > For packages in the second group, not using a USE flag is silly.
7 > > |
8 > > | I take it you are agreeing we should have a USE flag for these
9 > > | ebuilds?
10 > >
11 > > For packages where /etc entries are "wanted by some, not wanted by
12 > > some", yes.
13 >
14 > I finally came up with an idea for this that satisfies my desire to not
15 > recompile the package to get e.g. a logrotate file. Have the flag
16 > control whether it's installed to /etc or to /usr/share/doc.
17
18 Install it always in /usr/share/doc and use pkg_config() to copy it over
19 to /etc? Isn't stuff like that what pkg_config() is supposed to do
20 anyway?
21
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