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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: add-on files handling improvements
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:05:33
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=y=AtYMa=O_NDJ8dsm7=AmpdqfDSvLpRTcOJvzeNBJLQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: add-on files handling improvements by William Hubbs
1 On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 10:14 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 07:49:32PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >
4 >> Not everybody uses logrotate, xinetd, cron.d, and so on. It still
5 >> makes sense to just install the files, since they passively sit there
6 >> doing nothing in those cases.
7 >
8 > Rich,
9 >
10 > Not everyone uses zsh either, but you just said in the other thread that
11 > it is acceptable to put zsh completions behind a use flag [1], and a
12 > couple of others agreed with us.
13
14 That wasn't what I meant at all.
15
16 I used the words "second choice" to describe this scenario. My first
17 preference was to do what I quoted, which is to install the files
18 unconditionally as is done with bash. If we did control it with a USE
19 flag then we shouldn't RDEPEND on zsh.
20
21 Apologies if my email was confusing.
22
23 > [1]
24 > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/d57b96bcfb1a91ee437f39410da00aad
25
26 --
27 Rich