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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] inetd/xinetd useflags
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:04:36
Message-Id: 200507061058.48211.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] inetd/xinetd useflags by "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
1 On Wednesday 06 July 2005 10:32 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 16:17, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > the hasq part is pointless and the insinto is bad form for a do* func
4 >
5 > It's not pointless, ignoring it will make us come back to the old problem
6 > of dopamd/newpamd functions which couldn't be used on
7 > non-optional-pam-dependant packages because if someone had -pam in useflags
8 > the file wasn't installed, also if pam wasn't optional (and so pam was not
9 > in IUSE).
10
11 that's a hack if i ever heard one
12
13 you should add a 'force' flag or something ... `dopamd -f` ... making it rely
14 on IUSE setting is just plain nasty
15 -mike
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