Hi,
William Hubbs wrote:
> I believe, back in the day we started this practice, portage did not
> support --newuse or --changed-use, so there was no way to only update
> packages that had changed or new use flags. In that situation, I
> understand why we installed all of these add-on files uncondi
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 10:14 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 07:49:32PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> Not everybody uses logrotate, xinetd, cron.d, and so on. It still
>> makes sense to just install the files, since they passively sit there
>> doing nothing in those cases.
>
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 07:49:32PM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:11:34AM +0200, Matthias Maier wrote:
> >>
> >> > Thoughts?
> >>
> >> One point in favor of the current practice (installing add-on files
> >> uncondi
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 7:28 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:11:34AM +0200, Matthias Maier wrote:
>>
>> > Thoughts?
>>
>> One point in favor of the current practice (installing add-on files
>> unconditionally) is the fact that you can basically do it for free - you
>> neither
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 12:11:34AM +0200, Matthias Maier wrote:
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> One point in favor of the current practice (installing add-on files
> unconditionally) is the fact that you can basically do it for free - you
> neither have to depend on additional packages, nor is the presence o
> Thoughts?
One point in favor of the current practice (installing add-on files
unconditionally) is the fact that you can basically do it for free - you
neither have to depend on additional packages, nor is the presence of
the add-on files a penalty in download time or storage.
Further, a lot of
All,
I want to start a discussion about our add-on files practice and try to
improve it.
I agree it is reasonable to install bash completions
unconditionally, because bash is part of the base requirement for
Gentoo. However, I do not agree that we should continue installing
add-on files for every
