Bug 258173

Summary:	sys-power/acpid-1.0.4-r5 invalid use of logrotate USE flag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) <bangert>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mobile Herd (OBSOLETE) <mobile+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	QA
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	198901

Description Thilo Bangert (RETIRED) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-08 18:16:52 UTC

Having a use
flag for installing one plaintext file doesn't make sense.

- ebuilds don't handle this consistently (some just use this flag for
doins/newins a script to /etc/logrotate.d, some add app-admin/logrotate
dependency, some install the scripts unconditionally)

- users can use INSTALL_MASK if diskspace is an issue for them (extremely
unlikely), plus the installed scripts have no effect until you install
logrotate anyway, so if you don't want this functionality, just don't install
it, if you do, emerge logrotate and you don't have to care about anything else
and no need to re-emerge anything).

(BTW, the usage of this flag in net-proxy/squid really is special, don't quite
understand why not just use the rotate functionality squid itself has.)

So, please nuke the use flag and install the stuff unconditionally.

--

newer version (1.0.6-r1) does not have USE flag and is stable (but has open bugs)...
see #198901 and gentoo-dev for more info.

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-31 20:23:51 UTC

+  31 Mar 2010; Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> acpid-1.0.4-r5.ebuild:
+  Remove USE logrotate wrt #258173 by Thilo Bangert.
+