Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

[Jim Ramsay]

Olivier Crête wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-05 at 14:20 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote:
> > Jim Ramsay wrote:
> > >
> > > 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something)
> > > that will just pull in this dependency.
> > >
> > > 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with any
> > > of them adding libflashsupport to the dep list, since these are
> > > all global flags and will most likely be enabled for both
> > > netscape-flash and libflashsupport
> > >
> > > I'm personally thinking (1) is the better of the 2 options, but
> > > I'd like to know if anyone has any other wondrous solutions to
> > > this.
> >
> > Does/will anything else dep on flashsupport? If not, why not just
> > add the USE flags to netscape-flash and install libflashsupport as
> > part of the netscape-flash install instead of a separate package.
>
> If its a separate package that will be updated separately, then it
> doesn't make sense to put it in the separate package and I support
> option 1. Otherwise, if they'll always be together, then just put it
> in the same package.

Yes, libflashsupport is distributed separately and is on a different
release schedule than netscape-flash.

I suppose I could also propose:

4) netscape-flash just RDEPENDS on libflashsupport all the time.  It's
certainly not a large library to be added on.

-- 
Jim Ramsay
Gentoo/Linux Developer (rox,gkrellm)