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On 05/21/2013 09:03 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 21/05/2013 05:03, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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>> That's missing the point. If you don't run systemd, having unit files is |
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>> pointless. Thankfully there's INSTALL_MASK and whatnot, but that seems |
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>> like a hack instead of something more robust. Why include systemd unit |
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>> files (by default, with no systemd USE flag, thanks to the council...) |
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>> on a system that's not using it? 154 files isn't negligible unless |
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>> you're flippant with your system and don't care about bloat. Unused |
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>> software sitting around *is* a waste of disk-space. |
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>> Some people (like myself) came to Gentoo to avoid putting systemd on |
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>> their systems and to make use of the great choice that Gentoo allows. |
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>> This push to make systemd a "first level citizen" or whatever reeks of |
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>> marketing. If there is desire among users for unit files, they can |
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>> contact upstream or maintain their own set of unit files. It's not like |
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>> they're hard to write. |
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> <amused long-term user chipping in> |
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> This is such a weak argument it's quite laughable. |
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> I don't like gnu info files. Neither me nor anyone I know can figure out |
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> how to drive info. So, let's rip all the info files out of every |
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> package; leaving the 3 users who do know info free to grab their copies |
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> from upstream. I mean it's not like it's hard or anything, and info |
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> files are easy to write. |
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check the FEATURES variable and be surprise =) (from man make.conf) |
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nodoc Do not install doc files (/usr/share/doc). |
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noinfo Do not install info pages. |
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noman Do not install manpages. |
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Adding a nounits norunscript and such might work and had been proposed. |
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