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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:17:34
Message-Id: 200504300117.33964.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Saturday 30 April 2005 00:52, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 22:55 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote:
3 > > The only thing I think is necessary to improve for this to work is the
4 > > method in which a package's config method is invoked. Doing it via emerge
5 > > would be much more intuitive. Something like "emerge --config
6 > > dev-db/mysql"? Use standard atom matching within the installed package
7 > > database and use the standard "please be specific" message when more than
8 > > one package matches.
9 >
10 > That would be very cool. I expect it by COB today.
11
12 # emerge config foo/bar
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14 Currently, 'config' is a help option only.
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17 Looks like somebody had a similar idea in the past but never got around to
18 actually completing it... What time's close of business?
19
20 Regards,
21 Jason Stubbs

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Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>