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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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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