[gentoo-dev] webdav global use flag and default
Hi we currently have both webdav and nowebdav ueflags, this is confusing: # grep webdav /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc dev-util/git:webdav - Adds support for push'ing to HTTP repositories via DAV dev-util/subversion:nowebdav - Disables WebDAV support via neon library net-misc/sitecopy:webdav - Enable WebDav (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) support. This system allows users to collaborate on websites using a web based interface. See the ebuild for an FAQ page. Enables neon as well to handle webdav support. www-apps/open-xchange:webdav - Enable WebDav (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) support. www-servers/lighttpd:webdav - Enables webdev properties The proposed solution is to make webdav a global useflag and set it as a default use flag to have the same effect as the current nowebdav use flag in subversion. Comments? Regards, Stefan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-dev] webdav global use flag and default
On Friday 28 July 2006 10:18, Stefan Schweizer wrote: Hi we currently have both webdav and nowebdav ueflags, this is confusing: # grep webdav /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc dev-util/git:webdav - Adds support for push'ing to HTTP repositories via DAV dev-util/subversion:nowebdav - Disables WebDAV support via neon library net-misc/sitecopy:webdav - Enable WebDav (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) support. This system allows users to collaborate on websites using a web based interface. See the ebuild for an FAQ page. Enables neon as well to handle webdav support. www-apps/open-xchange:webdav - Enable WebDav (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) support. www-servers/lighttpd:webdav - Enables webdev properties The proposed solution is to make webdav a global useflag and set it as a default use flag to have the same effect as the current nowebdav use flag in subversion. I'd like to explain why subversion has a nowebdav useflag. Basically one of the features of subversion is its ability to work over the http protocol. Many subversion installations use the apache module to serve subversion (even our own overlay project does). To disable webdav support would cripple the subversion client. It is something one should only do when aware of the consequences. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net pgplBDFU7dRLt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] webdav global use flag and default
Am Freitag, 28. Juli 2006 10:18 schrieb Stefan Schweizer: Hi we currently have both webdav and nowebdav ueflags, this is confusing: # grep webdav /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc dev-util/git:webdav - Adds support for push'ing to HTTP repositories via DAV dev-util/subversion:nowebdav - Disables WebDAV support via neon library net-misc/sitecopy:webdav - Enable WebDav (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) support. This system allows users to collaborate on websites using a web based interface. See the ebuild for an FAQ page. Enables neon as well to handle webdav support. www-apps/open-xchange:webdav - Enable WebDav (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) support. www-servers/lighttpd:webdav - Enables webdev properties The proposed solution is to make webdav a global useflag and set it as a default use flag to have the same effect as the current nowebdav use flag in subversion. 5 packages, and only one has nowebdav, and you want to make it a default USE flag? I strongly disagree here. Make it a plain useflag and notify users of subversion that the behaviour changed. Much better than informing users of the other 4 packages that the behaviour changed. Danny -- Danny van Dyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
