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On Thu, 01 May 2008 19:05:35 +0300 |
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Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> It still means a rebuild of the binding providing library, which |
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> involves unnecessary recompilation of the (typically) C or C++ |
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> library, which in some cases can be a huge time sink - that in the |
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> case that the library in question isn't at that time pulled in (in |
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> that case the package manager can enable it at first merge), but |
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> already installed without the bindings USE flags. |
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Not really. For packages that support it, it just means adding a way |
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for that package to be told to do a partial rebuild for the addition of |
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a use flag. |
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But that discussion can come after Portage gets use dependencies... |
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Which, as I understand it, won't be for at least another eighteen months |
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because three more people have just asked for them. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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