Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> schrieb:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> >My suggestion: make those language bindings being separate
> >packages. So, other packages can depend on them directly,
> >instead of the current, build-breaking hack.
> >
> >I'm not advocating gentoo should do this step alone, but
> >instead join in the upstream and solve it there.
>
> The issue is upstream related, we can workaround it using a way to
> express that requirement (usedeps, checks in pkg_setup, whatever),
> obviously trying to cooperate with upstream in order to get the optional
> bindings build w/out the main program would make our life simpler and
> probably their as well.
>
> Partial builds are quite a problem since they are anything but reliable.

ACK. These are just hacks to work around upstream's design 
problems. For me, working much embedded environments, those
hacks are not an option, since builds MUST be reliable
(the packages MUST work IMMEDIATELY after deployment, since
there is no chance for doing things like revdep-rebuild).

My vote is: declaring guidelines (or better: constraints) for
clean builds and then working directly within the upstream to
get it on the road. If the upstream really blocks it, do a 
fork / maintain a patchline (like OSS-QM project does).

I'm already doing so with several packages.


cu
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