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From: Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:40:40
Message-Id: 448A136B.70107@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds by Roy Marples
1 Roy Marples wrote:
2 > On Friday 09 June 2006 23:34, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >
4 >>On Friday 09 June 2006 16:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>This is the "official" (hehe) request for comments on making a policy of
7 >>>how to handle ebuilds than can be used for either client or server and
8 >>>how to allow for building client-only.
9 >>
10 >>rather than moving to some sort of policy that satisfies no one completely
11 >>and we'll have to back out of later, why dont we wait until portage can
12 >>give us proper support for USE=client/server
13 >>-mike
14 >
15 >
16 > So we have two use flags - client and server. Here are the possabilities
17 >
18 > -client -server
19 > +client -server
20 > +client +server
21 > -client +server
22 >
23 > Do we read -client -server and +client +server to mean the same thing?
24 > If so the logic can read
25 >
26 > if use client || ! use server ; then
27 > # build client
28 > fi
29 > if use server || ! use client ; then
30 > # build server
31 > fi
32 >
33 > How does portage stop us from doing that now?
34 >
35
36 built_with_use is then incorrect, since for -client -server you really
37 built both.
38 --
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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>