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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Determining client/server role in ebuild
From:       Chad Huneycutt <chadh () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2002-12-13 16:49:41
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On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 10:26, Blake Watters wrote:
> I've just started whipping up a samhain ebuild and I was immediately 
> struck by the question of how to deal with determining the client/server 
> role (I'm interested in centralized monitoring) of the machine during 
> ebuild installation. Basically you have to enable client/server role at 
> configuration time. So I either have to prompt the user interactively 
> (something I haven't seen done in an ebuild and seems to run contrary to 
> the nature of portage) or determine it with something like a use flag. But 
> I also seem to remember something about a policy against adding use flag 
> willy-nilly to Portage. What's the preferred way to deal with a situation 
> like this?

Seems like a good reason to split the ebuild into samhain-server and
samhain-client.

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Chad Huneycutt
chadh@gentoo.org


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