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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:13:44
Message-Id: 20100817210514.GC24806@nibiru.local
1 * Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> schrieb:
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3 > My biggest beef by far when packaging apps is automagic dependencies.
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5 > e17 is full of them - if package A is present, the app will configure itself
6 > to use it. Usually you cannot switch this kind of thing off even if you have
7 > valid reasons to do so.
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9 That's one of the reasons I'm building everything by a sysroot'ed
10 crosscompiler (when not using Gentoo ;-)). This way these things
11 (normally) can't happen.
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13 > I want explicit --enable-<package> features in the ./configure step for
14 > everything that might be optional. Because I often do have that lib on my
15 > system and the app's usage of it is buggy, so I should be able to disable that
16 > support.
17
18 Can you live with the current formulation ?
19 http://www.metux.de/index.php/de/component/content/article/57.html
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21 (see and of the text)
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24 cu
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