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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Determining client/server role in ebuild
From:       Bart Verwilst <verwilst () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2002-12-13 17:26:26
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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.

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Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium

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