From gentoo-dev Fri Dec 13 17:26:26 2002 From: Bart Verwilst Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 17:26:26 +0000 To: gentoo-dev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Determining client/server role in ebuild X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=103980044322323 On Friday 13 December 2002 17:49, Chad Huneycutt wrote: || 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. My thoughts exactly. -- Bart Verwilst Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Gent, Belgium -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list