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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@g.o>
To: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Proposal] New global USE: sdk
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 00:17:08
Message-Id: 20040505001654.GH24796@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [Proposal] New global USE: sdk by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 02:25:39PM -0400, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > I'd like to create a new global USE flag "sdk" to install optional
3 > software development kits (SDKs), driver development kits (DDKs) and so
4 > forth.
5 >
6 > It's already being used in xfree and xorg-x11 as local USEs -- I'd be
7 > interested to know whether anyone else could use this.
8
9 In dev-java, we already have <vendor>-sdk-bin and <vendor>-jre-bin
10 packages, which in theory could make use of your sdk flag.
11
12 However, since we need to be able to depend on an sdk or a jre explicitly, and
13 portage doesn't allow to depend on a package compiled with particular use
14 flags, this is not useful for us at the moment.
15
16 My 0.02EUR from the Java corner.
17
18 Kind regards,
19
20 Karl T