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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'd like to propose a new global USE flag named 'logrotate' to add |
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> support for app-admin/logrotate (by installing logrotate config files |
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> to /etc/logrotate.d/). |
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> There are currently one local USE flag named logrotate in |
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> net-proxy/squid, which of course isn't enough to justify having a global |
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> USE flag - but it seems other packages, at least app-admin/syslog-ng, |
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> currently unconditionally install a config file to /etc/logrotate.d/. |
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> There are 4 open enhancement requests in Gentoo bugzilla about ebuilds |
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> which could install such a config file, and I am sure many other ebuilds |
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> could as well (anything that logs to a file). |
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> If there are no objections to this I will make 'logrotate' a global USE |
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> flag once I add a logrotate config file to sys-power/acpid. |
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How annoying is it for someone to remerge a package just to get a |
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logrotate file? I suggest that if you're going to install it at all, do |
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it unconditionally. |
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