Mailing List Archive: Proposal for a global xinetd USE flag

Currently we have the following local xinetd USE flags. The semantics
of xinetd in each case are roughly the same:

dev-db/firebird:xinetd - If you want inetd version instead of a superserver (daemon)
net-ftp/proftpd:xinetd - Enable support for starting from xinetd
net-ftp/vsftpd:xinetd - Add support for running under xinetd
net-im/bitlbee:xinetd - Install an xinetd.d file for bitlbee
net-mail/qpopper:xinetd - If you want inetd version instead of standalone
net-misc/linux-identd:xinetd - Use xinetd instead of the initscript
net-misc/rsync:xinetd - Install an xinetd.d file for rsyncd
net-proxy/ziproxy:xinetd - If you want inetd version instead of a superserver (daemon)

The following ebuilds installed xinetd configuration on my machine
even though I don't have xinetd installed.

mkennedy@localhost:~$ equery belongs /etc/xinetd.d
[ Searching for file(s) /etc/xinetd.d in *... ]
dev-util/subversion-1.3.2-r1 (/etc/xinetd.d)
dev-util/cvs-1.12.12-r3 (/etc/xinetd.d)
net-misc/netkit-fingerd-0.17-r2 (/etc/xinetd.d)
net-print/cups-1.2.1-r2 (/etc/xinetd.d)

RFC.

Matt

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Matthew Kennedy
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Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> The following ebuilds installed xinetd configuration on my machine
> even though I don't have xinetd installed.
>
> mkennedy@localhost:~$ equery belongs /etc/xinetd.d
> [ Searching for file(s) /etc/xinetd.d in *... ]
> dev-util/subversion-1.3.2-r1 (/etc/xinetd.d)
> dev-util/cvs-1.12.12-r3 (/etc/xinetd.d)
> net-misc/netkit-fingerd-0.17-r2 (/etc/xinetd.d)
> net-print/cups-1.2.1-r2 (/etc/xinetd.d)

more:
# qfile /etc/xinetd.d/
net-fs/samba (/etc/xinetd.d)
net-misc/telnet-bsd (/etc/xinetd.d)
net-dialup/capi4k-utils (/etc/xinetd.d)

Yes, please go ahead and make xinetd a global use flag. It is incorrect to
have several local use flags for the same purpose. In /etc/xinetd.d only a
small file is installed, so probably making that file optional is not
obligatory. Nevertheless it would be cool to use the useflag whereever
possible.

- Stefan

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