Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate

[Cory Visi]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:30:03AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to propose a new global USE flag named 'logrotate' to add
> support for app-admin/logrotate (by installing logrotate config files
> to /etc/logrotate.d/).
>
> There are currently one local USE flag named logrotate in
> net-proxy/squid, which of course isn't enough to justify having a global
> USE flag - but it seems other packages, at least app-admin/syslog-ng,
> currently unconditionally install a config file to /etc/logrotate.d/.
>
> There are 4 open enhancement requests in Gentoo bugzilla about ebuilds
> which could install such a config file, and I am sure many other ebuilds
> could as well (anything that logs to a file).
>
> If there are no objections to this I will make 'logrotate' a global USE
> flag once I add a logrotate config file to sys-power/acpid.

Why do we even need a USE flag for this? The logrotate config files are 
max, 4k. Just include the config file with your ebuild, which is what I 
have done up until now. A user can either run logrotate or not. This 
isn't about turning on a feature, it's about saving 4k. I don't think 
it's worth it; I feel like USE flags are getting completely out of 
control.

Please comment.

Thanks,
Cory
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