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From: Patrick McLean <chutzpah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:35:22
Message-Id: 44898633.8010404@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one? by Roy Marples
1 Roy Marples wrote:
2 > USE client server
3 > client - just build the client - duh
4 > server - just build the server - duh
5 > client and server OR neither then build both.
6 >
7 > Other packages to possably beneift
8 > udhcp
9 > mldonkey
10 > samhain
11 > bacula
12 > boxbackup
13 >
14 finger, telnet and ssh are probably other candidates. (though not too
15 many people set up boxes without a ssh server these days).
16
17 ++ to this, I have always found it a little absurd having dhcpd
18 installed on my laptop just for dhclient.
19
20 George Shapovalov wrote:
21 > Of course this multiplies the number of packages to support, if such situation
22 > is common. However the solution you describe can be considered "clean" only
23 > after #2272 is finally resolved..
24 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2272
25 I doubt whether any devs would argue against USE based dependencies.
26 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one? Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>