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Cory Visi wrote: |
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> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:30:03AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: |
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>>Hi, |
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>>I'd like to propose a new global USE flag named 'logrotate' to add |
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>>support for app-admin/logrotate (by installing logrotate config files |
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>>to /etc/logrotate.d/). |
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>>There are currently one local USE flag named logrotate in |
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>>net-proxy/squid, which of course isn't enough to justify having a global |
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>>USE flag - but it seems other packages, at least app-admin/syslog-ng, |
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>>currently unconditionally install a config file to /etc/logrotate.d/. |
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>>There are 4 open enhancement requests in Gentoo bugzilla about ebuilds |
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>>which could install such a config file, and I am sure many other ebuilds |
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>>could as well (anything that logs to a file). |
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>>If there are no objections to this I will make 'logrotate' a global USE |
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>>flag once I add a logrotate config file to sys-power/acpid. |
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> Why do we even need a USE flag for this? The logrotate config files are |
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> max, 4k. Just include the config file with your ebuild, which is what I |
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> have done up until now. A user can either run logrotate or not. This |
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> isn't about turning on a feature, it's about saving 4k. I don't think |
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> it's worth it; I feel like USE flags are getting completely out of |
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> control. |
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Not everyone uses logrotate (its optional in system now) so they may not want |
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those files. Thats how I view it at least. |
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