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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 12:28:56
Message-Id: 1150114999.5296.0.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds by Mike Frysinger
1 On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 19:56 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Saturday 10 June 2006 10:29, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 > > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 18:34 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
4 > > > On Friday 09 June 2006 16:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 > > > > This is the "official" (hehe) request for comments on making a policy
6 > > > > of how to handle ebuilds than can be used for either client or server
7 > > > > and how to allow for building client-only.
8 > > >
9 > > > rather than moving to some sort of policy that satisfies no one
10 > > > completely and we'll have to back out of later, why dont we wait until
11 > > > portage can give us proper support for USE=client/server
12 > >
13 > > Got an ETA?
14 > >
15 > > The situation we have now is confusing, at best, to our users, and
16 > > something really should be done to resolve it.
17 >
18 > sure, dont add support for the flags at all at this point, problem solved
19
20 You apparently missed that there already are packages in the tree using
21 these flags, as well as minimal.
22
23 This inconsistent usage is what I was trying to solve in the first
24 place.
25
26 --
27 Chris Gianelloni
28 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
29 x86 Architecture Team
30 Games - Developer
31 Gentoo Linux

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>