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Donnie Berkholz wrote: [Thu Apr 28 2005, 03:21:50PM CDT] |
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> Yes. Or don't install it at all, and let people create their own. This |
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> is a dumb USE flag. |
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I'd say that "dumb USE flag" is rather harsh. It seems clear that (a) |
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many users would like a logrotate script installed for them, and since |
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it's not all that difficult we should probably oblige, and that (b) some |
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users won't want any logrotate scripts installed. Most optional things |
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of this sort or handled by USE flags, although I'll grant that sometimes |
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we decide by fiat that things should be done a certain way because |
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making something optional is just too much work for too little gain. |
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As an aside, my preference would be to install them by default, but |
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allow a nologrotate equivalent to "nodoc", "noinfo", or "noman". That |
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would require hacking portage, though, which seems silly for something |
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so trivial. Does anybody remember why we chose "nodoc", "noinfo", and |
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"noman" instead of a generic INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/doc |
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/usr/share/man ..." flag which could be more general? |
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