Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do :?

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 15:27, Bob Phan wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2002, Gila wrote:
>
> > hey guys....
> >
> > i am making a ebuild for a file share program that works fine imho.. but
> > i got a question:
> >
> > The main program is console based but a GUI is optional. the problem is
> > that i want to make a ebuild that compiles the GUI is the gtk use flag
> > is set. How do i make it so that IF use GTK it downloads configure make
> > make install the GUI in one ebuild ?
>
> You probably want to make two packages, Foo-console and Foo-gui.  Foo-gui
> should depend on Foo-console, therefor if you choose to install Foo-gui
> it will install Foo-console automatically.  This is the way the xine
> packages work (which you should probably take a look at).  Xine-ui depends
> on xine-lib, so when you emerge xine-ui, you get a fully functional gui
> xine, but if you emerge xine-lib, you end up with just the libraries
> needed for another xine frontend.
>

It really depends.  In the case of Xine, the main Xine package
is a library, which xine-ui depends on, so it makes sense to
have two ebuilds.

If your program have only one source tarball, and uses GTK+ to
build the gui, you would rather have it build console if 'gtk'
is not in USE, else if it is, build both.

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Martin Schlemmer
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