Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:59:39
Message-Id: 1228773575.9147.14.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem by Alan Hourihane
1 On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 21:56 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:59 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
3 > > On 02-12-2008 14:16:28 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
4 > > >
5 > > > On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 10:18 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
6 > > > > On 02-12-2008 08:58:23 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote:
7 > > > > > > > Recommended way ??
8 > > > > > >
9 > > > > > > !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )
10 > > > > >
11 > > > > > What if simply not keywording sys-devel/libperl - or p.masking, and then
12 > > > > > doing:
13 > > > > >
14 > > > > > ( sys-devel/libperl || dev-lang/perl )
15 > > > >
16 > > > > isn't it perl itself that depends on libperl?
17 > > >
18 > > > Yes, but that is irrelevant here.
19 > > >
20 > > > This is meant for packages needing the perl-library only - preferrably
21 > > > shared (from sys-devel/libperl), or static (from dev-lang/perl) on MiNT.
22 > >
23 > > Do those exist? That is the most imporant here. Because then you need
24 > > something like:
25 > > || ( sys-devel/libperl m68k-mint? ( dev-lang/perl ) )
26 > > probably better:
27 > > !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )
28 > > m68k-mint? ( dev-lang/perl)
29 > >
30 > > yeah, ugly, so the final solution highly depends on how often this is
31 > > going to be necessary.
32 >
33 > In mainline portage there's less than 10 packages that use
34 > sys-devel/perl.
35 >
36 > So shall I stick....
37 >
38 > !m68k-mint? ( sys-devel/libperl )
39 >
40 > in the dev-lang/perl ebuild as in the attached ebuild patch ?
41 >
42 > Let me have any other comments on this too, and once it's o.k.ed I'll
43 > send the actual perl-5.8.8-mint.patch too.
44
45 Ooops, that was the wrong patch. Use this one for comments....
46
47 Alan.

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