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I'm working on an ebuild for gaby and I've got some dependancy |
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questions. gaby has several optional features. I looked at debian |
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and they simply make everything a dependancy. The ebuild system gives |
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us quite a bit more flexibility. |
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The details: |
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- supports gnome or vanilla gtk+ interface |
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- optional python support (recommended) |
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- optional libxml support (recommended) |
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- optional imlib support |
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- optional gdk-pixbuf support |
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- optional EsounD support |
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- optional libglade support |
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- python and libxml support are required for printing |
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- imlib or gdk-pixbuf, not both |
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- if you use python support, pygtk is recommended |
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- optional nls |
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gnome, esd and nls are easy. Just check USE flags in make.conf. |
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Since there's no imlib or gdk-pixbuf USE flags, I don't consider them |
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a dependency and let the ./configure script decide. |
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Same with libglade support - build it if ./configure can find it. |
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Python is where things get complicated. IMO, printing should be |
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included by default, so python and libxml should be dependencies |
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(ignoring the USE python flag). |
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And lastly, let ./configure handle pygtk. |
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What do you think? Does this fit with the Gentoo philisophy? |
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Thanks |
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Craig |
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