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From: Bart Lauwers <blauwers@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] "cvspserver" local use flag for dev-util/cvs
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 14:42:40
Message-Id: 200402211542.15946.blauwers@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] "cvspserver" local use flag for dev-util/cvs by Rainer Groesslinger
1 I'd rather see a noserver or noclient flags since those can be used by other
2 ebuilds also to do the same sort of thing. Thinking for example about samba
3 or openldap .....
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6 Bart
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9 On Friday 20 February 2004 19:10, Rainer Groesslinger wrote:
10 > Hello,
11 >
12 > I'd like to add a new local use flag called "cvspserver" or "pserver"
13 > for dev-util/cvs.
14 >
15 > Currently, the ebuilds add config files and a cvs user/group (incl.
16 > /var/cvsroot as the home directory) but to keep it more leightweight I'd
17 > like to not add the uid/gid etc. to the system if the flag is not set.
18 >
19 > Some people already asked me if it is really neccessary to add those
20 > things on every system and well, in fact, it isn't :)
21 >
22 > Also, a lot of people who merge dev-util/cvs will never run a pserver
23 > anyway, the others can simply enable the use flag.
24 >
25 > I'll go ahead and do the changes to 1.11.13 (currently ~ on all arches)
26 > if there are no objections.
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