On Friday 29 April 2005 07:28, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > My problem with it is that Joe User, who doesn't do ebuilds, will change > his USE flags and recompile an entire package just to get a little > logrotate file that has nothing to do with the source of the package > itself. This waste of time is pointless, which is why I call the USE > flag dumb. > > I'd prefer to have some package that's just a collection of logrotate > files for a ton of packages, if there's some reason a ~400-byte file is > just killing your system. Or a separate package for each file. Doesn't > matter to me. > > In fact, I've thought many times about supplying "pre-packages" that are > no more than a collection of all the config files for a given package.
What about the unused `ebuild [ebuild] config`? Isn't that the perfect place for this sort of stuff? The only package that I know that uses this feature is mysql. There are way more possibilities. > > As an aside, my preference would be to install them by default, but > > allow a nologrotate equivalent to "nodoc", "noinfo", or "noman". That > > would require hacking portage, though, which seems silly for something > > so trivial. Does anybody remember why we chose "nodoc", "noinfo", and > > "noman" instead of a generic INSTALL_MASK="/usr/share/doc > > /usr/share/man ..." flag which could be more general? > There does appear to also be an INSTALL_MASK. I just grepped > /usr/lib/portage for it. Iggy's (is that his real name?) request. Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
