On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:30:03AM +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose a new global USE flag named 'logrotate' to add > support for app-admin/logrotate (by installing logrotate config files > to /etc/logrotate.d/). > > There are currently one local USE flag named logrotate in > net-proxy/squid, which of course isn't enough to justify having a global > USE flag - but it seems other packages, at least app-admin/syslog-ng, > currently unconditionally install a config file to /etc/logrotate.d/. > > There are 4 open enhancement requests in Gentoo bugzilla about ebuilds > which could install such a config file, and I am sure many other ebuilds > could as well (anything that logs to a file). > > If there are no objections to this I will make 'logrotate' a global USE > flag once I add a logrotate config file to sys-power/acpid.
Why do we even need a USE flag for this? The logrotate config files are max, 4k. Just include the config file with your ebuild, which is what I have done up until now. A user can either run logrotate or not. This isn't about turning on a feature, it's about saving 4k. I don't think it's worth it; I feel like USE flags are getting completely out of control. Please comment. Thanks, Cory -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
