-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.
How annoying is it for someone to remerge a package just to get a logrotate file? I suggest that if you're going to install it at all, do it unconditionally. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCcT4kXVaO67S1rtsRAo/HAKDJQWZtnd/pWgQLqBFLmBiU2QOv9gCgujMW irWQDLH7J/RECXhVBkNExtE= =0fG+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
