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On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 01:22:51PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> 1) require EXTRA_ECONF to enable it. |
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> 2) hide it behind a masked USE flag. |
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> Both options require about the same amount of work from the user, namely |
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> editing something under /etc/portage. What do y'all think is the best |
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> way to proceed? Are there other examples in the tree I could follow? |
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From a Gentoo Infrastructure team perspective, we'd strongly prefer USE |
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flags, because that fits better into existing configuration management |
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tools, almost none of which have handling for EXTRA_ECONF or rebuilding |
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after EXTRA_ECONF changes (rebuild-on-USE-change is supported). |
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And please do bring that option back, we do use it for NRPE in a limited |
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set of cases (eg to avoid hard-coding passwords into the NRPE config). |
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