Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:58:52 -0800 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You want people to recompile the whole package to get another >> text file installed? > > When would one recompile a package just for that? Only case i can > think of is when someone who already has setup his apache / ftp / > database / whatever server suddenly discover what "logrotate" is > and thus decide to start using it, whereas until then he didn't > payed any attention to the flag each time it was listed by "emerge > -pv". That sounds rather unlikely, and i would say "too bad, be > more careful next time..." to such a sysadmin. And anyway, this > user doesn't really have to recompile anything to fix his mistake: > he can still have a look on the ebuild to see that if the file he > is missing is available in $FILESDIR, or use "ebuild unpack" and > get it from the sources tree when it comes from upstream. > [snip]
indeed, rephrasing what sayd before in the same thread: Mysql eclass will add a USE flag, local or global, "logrotate" for next versions of MySQL, not touching the old ebuilds. Run-time needed files will still live in $PORTDIR/dev-db/mysql/files, because their size is small, and they change seldom. Compile time needed files have been already moved in a separate SRC_URI fetched file. Unless we decide to drop totally "logrotate" use flag support. BTW hope this is not enough fuel to start another flamewar. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
