Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 10:26:54PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 15:20:32 > William Hubbs napisał(a): > > > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional > > > dependencies, is small and

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 15:20:32 William Hubbs napisał(a): > On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional > > dependencies, is small and can be toggled from within the app, a flag > > is useless. > > If someo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 08:00:22PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > If a switch only changes the default in a config file, a flag is > useless. Ok, maybe so in this case. > If a switch toggles a feature that does not introduce additional > dependencies, is small and can be toggled from within the ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2013-06-01, o godz. 12:41:06 William Hubbs napisał(a): > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > > William, each time this comes up you overred the _reasonably_. > > Controlling dependencies is always reasonable but beyond that it's case > > by case. Just because

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-06-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Tue, 28 May 2013 17:15:40 -0500 > William Hubbs wrote: > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable? > > > At least some of them l

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-31 Thread Gilles Dartiguelongue
Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 22:18 +0200, Michał Górny a écrit : > On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:22:04 -0400 > "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > > > I thought about ssl but I'm still not sure if USE=ssl means just openssl > > or any ssl. Eg, with curl, which has a choice of one of six backend ssl > > providers,

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-30 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Tue, 28 May 2013 17:15:40 -0500 William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable? > > At least some of them look like something that wouldn't hurt people > > if it was always-built. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-28 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 09:07:37PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > For the others, how large is the benefit of having them switchable? > At least some of them look like something that wouldn't hurt people if > it was always-built. The dev manual states that use flags are to control optional dependenc

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 28 May 2013 15:22:04 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > I thought about ssl but I'm still not sure if USE=ssl means just openssl > or any ssl. Eg, with curl, which has a choice of one of six backend ssl > providers, I changed USE=ssl to mean that one and only one of the six > must be

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-28 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 05/28/2013 03:07 PM, Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:57:03 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: On 05/28/2013 11:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:38:09 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and there

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 28 May 2013 14:57:03 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > On 05/28/2013 11:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:38:09 -0400 > > "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > > > >> I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and > >> there is a notice in base/make.

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-28 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 05/28/2013 11:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:38:09 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and there is a notice in base/make.default to discuss use expand flags on the list first. There are about 9 plugins fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 27 May 2013 16:38:09 -0400 "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and > there is a notice in base/make.default to discuss use expand flags on > the list first. There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache > which ca

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-28 Thread Anthony G. Basile
On 05/28/2013 02:01 AM, Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon wrote: On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 16:38 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache which can be turned on/off by a configure switch. It makes sense to follow the same logic as apache here. Indeed it does. Part

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-27 Thread René Neumann
Am 27.05.2013 22:38, schrieb Anthony G. Basile: > Hi everyone, > > I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and > there is a notice in base/make.default to discuss use expand flags on > the list first. There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache > which can

Re: [gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-27 Thread Tony "Chainsaw" Vroon
On Mon, 2013-05-27 at 16:38 -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache > which can be turned on/off by a configure switch. It makes sense to > follow the same logic as apache here. Indeed it does. Particularly if it avoids a non-obvious USE-flag tha

[gentoo-dev] New USE_EXPAND flag for www-servers/monkeyd

2013-05-27 Thread Anthony G. Basile
Hi everyone, I was about to add a use expand flag for monkeyd (a tiny web server) and there is a notice in base/make.default to discuss use expand flags on the list first. There are about 9 plugins for monkeyd similar to apache which can be turned on/off by a configure switch. It makes sense