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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] apache.eclass proposed
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 03:08:03
Message-Id: 1055128068.8987.185.camel@simple
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] apache.eclass proposed by Paul de Vrieze
1 First I'd like to say sorry to the ml this should of been called an
2 apache.eclass draft.
3
4 On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 15:50, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
5 > On Sunday 08 June 2003 21:45, Robin H.Johnson wrote:
6 > > On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 06:12:21AM -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
7 > > > After writing a net-www/ ebuild it seemed apparent to me that we are
8 > > > going to need an apache.eclass. A quick find in portage reveals quite a
9 > > > few independent ebuilds all needing the basic functionality that could
10 > > > be provided by an apache.eclass
11 > >
12 > > I agree that having this would be worthwhile, however it has been said
13 > > higher up before that /home/httpd/htdocs would be where things were
14 > > installed.
15 > >
16 What about the users that are changing there default DocumentRoot's?
17 Are we to ignore that completly and install to /home/httpd/htdocs
18 anyway?
19
20 > > A few problems with this.
21 > > 1. What about people that have both installed? I actually have an open
22 > > bug for mod_php about this, and I'm trying to decide on a workable
23 > > solution. Presently I'm leaning towards an enviroment variable
24 > > 'FORCE_APACHE=1|2' that overrides any detection routines, for the
25 > > special case of people that have both.
26 >
27 Such and enviroment variable would make things quite less complex.
28
29 > This is what the apache2 use variable is supposed to do. At least, as far as I
30 > know.
31 It does not behave this way for me, try USE=-apache2 with KEYWORDS=~x86
32 while wanting to keep an apache2 from getting installed.
33
34 Aparently the apache2 use flag was introduced to break the tie if both
35 apache 1 and apache 2 were installed but very few people are using it
36 correctly though, thus the need for these things to be addressed by an
37 eclass vrs everybodys the ebuilds themselfs.
38
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40 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
41 Gentoo Linux (Hardened)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] apache.eclass proposed "Robin H.Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>