[gentoo-dev] splitting one source package into many binaries

[Rafael Espíndola]

I am using Gentoo to build some small systems. While things like the
minimal useflag is a joy, the monolithic nature of most gentoo
packages is a headache.

Kde has been spit and libstdc++ can be installed without gcc but there
are many other packages that don't have this feature. For example,
installing qt also installs qt designer.

Has someone worked on changing ebuild so that it could create many
binary packages from one source? Something similar to debian's
dpkg-buildpackage. For example, it would be wonderful to be able to do

ebuild qt-something.ebuild split-package

and have in /usr/portage/packages a package for qt-designer and a
package for the rest of the library.

Is this a bad idea or simply not the Gentoo way?

Thanks for any comments

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Rafael Ávila de Espíndola

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