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   pk to Aragorn   
   Re: Just a few Gentoo pre-install questi   
   25 Jan 08 20:43:46   
   
   From: pk@pk.pk   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
      
   > 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...   
      
   Yeah, now that you told I did some searches and found that GLEP 20 (the one   
   proposing the srvdir USE flag) is currently "approved but not implemented"   
      
   http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep   
      
   And, reading b.g.o., it seems that it was indeed used for some time, at   
   least for some packages (apache and mysql, for example), but has been   
   removed since.   
      
   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142235   
      
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