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On Tuesday 19 October 2004 20:23, Roman Gaufman wrote: |
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> err, DO_NOT_COMPILE="kmail" in /etc/make.conf does just that, and |
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> supports every package or even service KDE has to offer. Feel free to |
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> not compile ksmserver or kinit as well -- this will break things, but |
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> the fact is, gentooists always had the possibility to do this! |
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> What exactly do you propose here? -- do you actually propose gentoo |
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> developers should split the metapackages into close to 100 ebuilds? -- |
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I'm not proposing anything. I'm announcing the fact that I and another Gentoo |
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developer (motaboy) have actually split the monolithic ebuilds into well over |
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300 new packages. |
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> what gain over DO_NOT_COMPILE does this give? |
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It allows portage to manage interdependencies and, in fact, everything else it |
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manages. Heavy use of DO_NOT_COMPILE, such as emerging only kmail + its deps |
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from all of kdepim (of course each user has to figure out for himself what |
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those deps are, first), is more or less equivalent to linux from scratch. |
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It'd be manual building, except portage will think it knows what is |
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installed, and will be wrong. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key |
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