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|    Aragorn to All    |
|    Re: Just a few Gentoo pre-install questi    |
|    25 Jan 08 19:17:49    |
      From: aragorn@chatfactory.invalid              pk wrote:              > Aragorn wrote:       >       >> Well, I guess I should have said that I would be using the /srvdir/ USE       >> flag, which most people won't use as it's rather exotic. If I understand       >> correctly, then with /srvdir,/ many applications that normally install       >> themselves in */var* would put their files in */srv.*       >       > Um, I have no such flag on my system. Where did you learn about it?       >       > # grep srv /usr/portage/profiles/use.*       > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:net-im/gajim:srv - SRV capabilities       > /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:net-irc/srvx:bahamut - Choose bahamut       > protocol over p10 protocol              It was proposed to become a USE flag already over two years ago, considering       that */srv* is part of the FHS and is already being created - albeit left       empty - in most modern distributions.              There was some debate about it on the Gentoo forums as well, and so I       naturally presumed that this USE flag had in the meantime already been       adopted...              --       Aragorn       (registered GNU/Linux user #223157)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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