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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 16:24:18
Message-Id: 20080501162328.GC25855@nibiru.local
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages by Ciaran McCreesh
1 * Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> schrieb:
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3 > Not really. For packages that support it, it just means adding a way
4 > for that package to be told to do a partial rebuild for the addition of
5 > a use flag.
6
7 Ugh, partial rebuilds are alway tricky and tend to make things
8 even more complicated and error-prone. See moz or oo. ;-P
9
10 > But that discussion can come after Portage gets use dependencies...
11 > Which, as I understand it, won't be for at least another eighteen months
12 > because three more people have just asked for them.
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14 I'm a bit confused - does portage already support use-deps or
15 does not not ?
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18 cu
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23 Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce:
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25 Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions:
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>