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On Wednesday 06 October 2004 00:05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Ick. The way to do this that won't break things is to decide upon a set |
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> of USE flags, apply them at a global level and then make a set of |
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> binaries for said combination. Then, give it a name and stick a file |
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> named __make.conf__ in the binaries directory. There's probably some way |
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> to do this neatly using the stuff in GLEP 29 if you really want. |
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> Incidentally, you'd to do the same for CFLAGS that you do for USE. For |
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> certain CFLAGS you can't safely mix combinations, it's an all or nothing |
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> thing. |
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Which exactly shows why binary packaging can be a bitch and the reason that |
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even debian must use releases. Source based can mix and match, but binaries |
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are never that flexible. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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