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On Tuesday 29 April 2003 20:26, Sergey Kuleshov wrote: |
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> Hullo, |
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> I was wondering recently about the way the dependencies of kde |
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> packages are made. For example I want to emerge kdeaddons, as the |
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> dependencies it requires me to install kdemultimedia and kdegames. |
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> However, strictly speaking kdeaddons does not require aby of these |
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> packages and I don't see the point why I should actually need them? |
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> IMHO (kdegames - well they are not that good ;) kdemultimedia - xmms+xine - |
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> rules!) |
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kdeaddons contains addons for apps from kdemultimedia and kdegames among |
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others; the headers of those packages are iirc necessary to compile these |
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addons. |
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> |
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> So, what I am suggesting is why not add a local USE flag, something like |
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> no_kde_mult ans no_kde_games, so that users could emerge addons without |
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> having to compile the above named packages? |
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I'm not sure whether our policy says that a local use flag should be |
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introduced wherever possible. Not that I have anything much against this |
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specific instance, but there are many other places where similar requests |
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could be made, which would be a bother. Any other dev, or kde user, care to |
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comment? |
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BTW, you could try e.g. KDE_REMOVE_DIR="noatun-plugins atlantikdesigner" |
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emerge kdeaddons-3.1.1-r1.ebuild. This is a hack though and may even stop |
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working one day, so I only mention it as a curiosity :-) |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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