Re: [gentoo-dev] Automagic dependencies in gegl

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> schrieb:

Hi,

> >Now, gegl has 13 optional dependencies that could be use-flagged. The pity
> >is, it has no configure-option for most of them, they are autodetected.

A good example for miserable design ;-P
That's why I everything should be entirely built in sysroot.

> >My experience with the gimp developers in the past was that they weren't
> >very pleased by bugs about automagic deps and I assume if I post them
> >without patches, they'll get closed immediately. Now I always avoided to
> >dig too deep into autotools, so I don't feel skilled enough for this task.
>
> Ping me and we could work out something, probably the best way would be
> hack a PKG_CONFIG_CONDITIONAL that does whatever the canned pkgconfig
> does+ adding the --enable option.

I strongly advise against this. The clean way is to fix the package.
(it's build scripts). I'm doing so in the OSS-QM project, eg. for
Mozilla ...

This actually is one of the typical situations what I invented 
OSS-QM for: the upstream produces crap and is even learning resistent.
Doing those cleanups within individual distros is not the right thing,
because a) too much work for the distro maintainer and b) too much
duplicate work, if every distro does it by it's own.

I'd like to invite you to the OSS-QM project - let's do all the
cleanups there and provide overlay by patch, so all distros now
just have to pick their right configure args.

http://oss-qm.metux.de/


cu
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