On Monday 30 January 2006 07:41, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> Another example of such issues is when i installed laptop-mode
> tools for the first time: it messed my acpid configuration, because
> it was adding in /etc/acpi/{events,actions}.d some handlers for
> things i had already configu
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:15:57 +0100 Thomas de Grenier de Latour
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| It would be interesting to know how that happened for in the past
| for /etc/bash_completion.d, which made a similar move iirc
Have you any idea how slow bash is if you use all the completion files
for ever
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> It would be interesting to know how that happened for in the past
> for /etc/bash_completion.d, which made a similar move iirc
Yes, it would.
> (although real files went to /usr/share/something, whereas here i
> would rather see them in etc because they are mo
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:51:29 -0800
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And any other "new" file in /etc you also want a USE flag
> introduced for? Sounds real scalable. Or is this just an
> exception from the rule?
Sure it's an exception. I make the difference beetween:
- usual /etc/ fi
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 13:51:25 -0800
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> > Or again another one (a bit ugly imho tho): merge the files in
> > an "/etc/logrotate.d.dist" directory, and add an eselect module
> > to handle symlinks from "/etc/logrotate.d".
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
Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> Or again another one (a bit ugly imho tho): merge the files in an
> "/etc/logrotate.d.dist" directory, and add an eselect module to
> handle symlinks from "/etc/logrotate.d".
What's ugly about this? I like it.
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 07:46:30AM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> We already had this discussion. It's not that it's another file, it's
> that it's another file in /etc, which is backed up and requires
> administrator attention on every upgrade. Packa
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
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:07:15 +0100
Thomas de Grenier de Latour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i would not appreciate to see it suddenly handling a new service
> because a xinet.d file has been silently added by a new version
> of an ebuild.
Ok, i see all files i have installed in that dir have disa
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 /
Marcelo Góes wrote:
>
>If INSTALL_MASK is the correct way to prevent logrotate stuff from
>being installed, then those 8 ebuilds I mentioned earlier should drop
>the USE flag and install it by default. That's probably easier to fix,
>too.
>
>
This cannot be done for squid, because this useflag s
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:58:52 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Marcelo Góes wrote:
| > Indeed, logrotate functionality should be optional. Ebuilds that
| > install logrotate stuff without asking should be updated to use the
| > logrotate USE flag.
| >
| > I'm making it a global US
Reposting since I don't think my last e-mail got through...
On 1/29/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> People who don't want it can set INSTALL_MASK. It should be installed by
> default and not switchable with a USE flag.
If INSTALL_MASK is the correct way to prevent logrotate stuff
Marcelo Góes wrote:
> It seems there are some ebuilds with a logrotate USE flag:
> Perhaps it should be a global USE flag?
We have discussed this "fairly recently"[1] so I'll post the link to
save everyone the hassle.
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-dev&w=2&r=1&s=logrotate&q=b
>
>
Marcelo Góes wrote:
Indeed, logrotate functionality should be optional. Ebuilds that
install logrotate stuff without asking should be updated to use the
logrotate USE flag.
I'm making it a global USE flag if nobody complains.
You want people to recompile the whole package to get another text f
On 1/28/06, Francesco Riosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Doug Goldstein wrote:
> > How about the packages that don't even ask and just install logrotate
> > stuff? Like Apache, lighttpd, and mysql?
> >
>
> they should use it, MySQL will be updated when Marcelo make "logrotate"
> uf global
Indeed,
Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Marcelo Góes wrote:
>> It seems there are some ebuilds with a logrotate USE flag:
>>
>> use.local.desc:34:app-backup/bacula:logrotate - Install support files
>> for logrotate
>> use.local.desc:550:mail-filter/dspam:logrotate - Install support files
>> for logrotate
>> use.lo
Marcelo Góes wrote:
> It seems there are some ebuilds with a logrotate USE flag:
>
> use.local.desc:34:app-backup/bacula:logrotate - Install support files
> for logrotate
> use.local.desc:550:mail-filter/dspam:logrotate - Install support files
> for logrotate
> use.local.desc:899:net-ftp/vsftpd:lo
It seems there are some ebuilds with a logrotate USE flag:
use.local.desc:34:app-backup/bacula:logrotate - Install support files
for logrotate
use.local.desc:550:mail-filter/dspam:logrotate - Install support files
for logrotate
use.local.desc:899:net-ftp/vsftpd:logrotate - Use logrotate for rotati
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