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From: Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:31:10
Message-Id: 200606100124.32773.uberlord@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds by Mike Frysinger
1 On Friday 09 June 2006 23:34, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Friday 09 June 2006 16:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
3 > > This is the "official" (hehe) request for comments on making a policy of
4 > > how to handle ebuilds than can be used for either client or server and
5 > > how to allow for building client-only.
6 >
7 > rather than moving to some sort of policy that satisfies no one completely
8 > and we'll have to back out of later, why dont we wait until portage can
9 > give us proper support for USE=client/server
10 > -mike
11
12 So we have two use flags - client and server. Here are the possabilities
13
14 -client -server
15 +client -server
16 +client +server
17 -client +server
18
19 Do we read -client -server and +client +server to mean the same thing?
20 If so the logic can read
21
22 if use client || ! use server ; then
23 # build client
24 fi
25 if use server || ! use client ; then
26 # build server
27 fi
28
29 How does portage stop us from doing that now?
30
31 --
32 Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
33 Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking)
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds Stuart Herbert <stuart.herbert@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] client/server policy for ebuilds Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>