Re: [gentoo-dev] apache.ebuild and recursive updates

Peter Fischer wrote:
>
> Hi everybody!
>
> I am currently trying to write my first ebuild script
> and I am facing some problems:
> I want to do a crossover of apache*.ebuild und several apache autobuild
> scripts on the net( "http://prometheus.zerodivide.net/apache_kit/" and
> "http://www.apachetoolbox.com/", which compile a big bunch of 3rd party modules), as
> well as some other modules like mod_mp3, mod_gzip...
>
> This leads to my 1st question:
> Should a ebuild script administrate such a big pile of software or should I
> rather write "3rdparty.ebuild" and leave apache, jakarta... as they are?
>
>

Hi Peter,

If possible use separate packages for the additional modules, beacuse we
can not make sub packages from
within one ebuild at the moment. Thank you for doing these stuff.

bye achim

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