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On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 10:13 -0500, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:28 am, Christian Parpart wrote: |
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> >>Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this? |
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> > general policy is to not split packages (and i agree with this ...) |
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> bind and bind-tools is split ;) Why is it so bad to split packages? (I'm |
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> just curious) Seems a bit odd that we can't have a library only, client |
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> only, etc package like the other distros. Of course, I understand that |
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Other distributions are also binary-only, so there's no real comparison |
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here. While I think having "client" and "server" type USE-flags is |
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really a bad idea, I don't see a problem with providing a library. |
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I 100% disagree with splitting the package into client and server, but |
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don't think it would be bad to have it like this: |
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net-libs/libmysqlclient |
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dev-db/mysql |
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You'll notice that there is no server package. The dev-db mysql package |
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should be the entire distribution. Splitting out a separate library for |
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client-only shouldn't be too bad, but I still disagree with it, for the |
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most part. |
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> we could use useflags for that, but is that really the best solution for |
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> this particular issue? |
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Honestly, we shouldn't be splitting packages like this. If upstream has |
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a "--clientonly" or "--libsonly" configure option, that would be one |
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thing, but if they don't why should we split them up? All it does is |
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increase the number of packages that would need to be updated for |
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security bugs and increase complexity, along with tree size. We already |
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complain about not enough manpower. Duplicating effort all over the |
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tree just to remove a few binaries from a system isn't a valuable use of |
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developer time, in my opinion. This is especially true as we have |
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methods of masking things from being installed. |
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> Oh well, I'm just a sysadmin, not a coder so I'll got back to my cave. ;) |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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