Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make logrotate a global USE flag?
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:06:29
Message-Id: 43DC76C2.5000609@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Make logrotate a global USE flag? by "Marcelo Góes"
1 Marcelo Góes wrote:
2
3 >
4 >If INSTALL_MASK is the correct way to prevent logrotate stuff from
5 >being installed, then those 8 ebuilds I mentioned earlier should drop
6 >the USE flag and install it by default. That's probably easier to fix,
7 >too.
8 >
9 >
10 This cannot be done for squid, because this useflag selects the rotation
11 method: logrotate or the native method (through a cron job).
12
13 While it is easy to filter logrotate files through INSTALL_MASK, it
14 isn't so for /etc/cron.* files.

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