Re: [gentoo-dev] Make logrotate a global USE flag?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:58:52 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
<spyderous@g.o> wrote:
| Marcelo Góes wrote:
| > Indeed, logrotate functionality should be optional. Ebuilds that
| > install logrotate stuff without asking should be updated to use the
| > logrotate USE flag.
| > 
| > I'm making it a global USE flag if nobody complains.
| 
| You want people to recompile the whole package to get another text
| file installed?
| 
| People who don't want it can set INSTALL_MASK. It should be installed
| by default and not switchable with a USE flag.

We already had this discussion. It's not that it's another file, it's
that it's another file in /etc, which is backed up and requires
administrator attention on every upgrade. Packages shouldn't stick
stuff in /etc on a whim.

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