On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 01:22:51PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > 1) require EXTRA_ECONF to enable it. > 2) hide it behind a masked USE flag. > > Both options require about the same amount of work from the user, namely > editing something under /etc/portage. What do y'all think is the best > way to proceed? Are there other examples in the tree I could follow? From a Gentoo Infrastructure team perspective, we'd strongly prefer USE flags, because that fits better into existing configuration management tools, almost none of which have handling for EXTRA_ECONF or rebuilding after EXTRA_ECONF changes (rebuild-on-USE-change is supported).
And please do bring that option back, we do use it for NRPE in a limited set of cases (eg to avoid hard-coding passwords into the NRPE config). -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
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