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From: Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:16:35
Message-Id: 4304A59D.8050901@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:28 am, Christian Parpart wrote:
3 >
4 >>Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this?
5 >
6 >
7 > general policy is to not split packages (and i agree with this ...)
8
9 bind and bind-tools is split ;) Why is it so bad to split packages? (I'm
10 just curious) Seems a bit odd that we can't have a library only, client
11 only, etc package like the other distros. Of course, I understand that
12 we could use useflags for that, but is that really the best solution for
13 this particular issue?
14
15 Oh well, I'm just a sysadmin, not a coder so I'll got back to my cave. ;)
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