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From: Christian Birchinger <joker@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:32:32
Message-Id: 20050429093234.GA28706@netswarm.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate by Grant Goodyear
1 On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:18:07PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
2 > As an aside, my preference would be to install them by default, but
3 > allow a nologrotate equivalent to "nodoc", "noinfo", or "noman". That
4 > would require hacking portage, though, which seems silly for something
5 > so trivial. Does anybody remember why we chose "nodoc", "noinfo", and
6 > "noman" instead of a generic INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/doc
7 > /usr/share/man ..." flag which could be more general?
8
9 I would really really really like an install mask for various places
10 and also wondered about the noman noinfo solution after it got
11 implemented. There are many places where i hate files being
12 installed by portage (like the BIND dir with it's example and
13 localhost zones).
14
15 Christian
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