On Sun, 26 May 2013 09:22:05 +0200
Tiziano Müller <dev-z...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Am Samstag, den 25.05.2013, 15:53 -0400 schrieb Anthony G. Basile:
> > We are moving too quickly on bug #448882 ([Tracker] packages not 
> > providing systemd units).  We should come to better consensus on systemd 
> > integration and we were getting there with the idea of INSTALL_MASK. I 
> > don't know that it is a working solution yet.  I have to oppose adding 
> > unit files unless we have a way to opt out for reasons I gave earlier, 
> > regarding embedded systems where one needs to conserve space 
> > aggressively.  And we may have found a way to do so without cluttering 
> > ebuilds with USE flags.
> 
> Even though I don't care about a couple of files more on my FS I would
> prefer to find a solution with functions provided by PMS, not portage
> alone.

PMS doesn't cover configuration, and I feel this is mostly
a configuration problem.

> > Can I ask the systemd people to design a working solution for opting 
> > out?  I can't support this initiative without such a solution and I 
> > would be happy to work with the systemd people to reach it, ie I'll test.
> > 
> 
> Maybe we have to find a more generic solution for this, because there is
> bug #235944 [1] which request extra config snippets for rsyslog added to
> various packages. Or is this something different? If yes, how?

Well, I don't know rsyslog and I have no real idea where those files
end up. But if they end up in a common directory, it's exactly the kind
of thing we can handle with INSTALL_MASK.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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