Gentoo, as one of the most rapidly growing distros, certainly has attracted a number of individuals very keen on advertising, and "spreading the word." As such, I propose the addition of a USE variable - "gentoo". This variable would allow for ebuilds to include overt and blatant advertising. (Incidentally, I suggest this variable be turned off by default. :) For starters, I have included some updates to the mutt-1.3.28-r1 and evolution-1.0.5 ebuilds. The evolution one consists of a patch and an updated ebuild, and the mutt ebuild consists of an extra line in src_install. These add X-Headers to all outgoing e-mail messages that say: X-OS: Gentoo GNU/Linux www.gentoo.org . I've got these ebuilds running and working on my system. I had also intended to include a patch for the *very* nice kernel logos at http://gentoo.tkdack.com/ , but Seemant says that TaD is working on a kernel menu option. Again, this is for *overt advertisement* - it's something that, imo, should be turned off by default. :)
Created attachment 1071 [details] evolution 1.0.5 header modification diff
Created attachment 1072 [details] evolution 1.0.5 header modification ebuild
Created attachment 1073 [details] mutt x-header Muttrc ebuild
this does not seem to be something that excites most of the developers. sorry about that. However, you may want to post your modifications to the gentoo forums.
