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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:05:42
Message-Id: 486A8005.6030205@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself) by Albert Zeyer
1 Albert Zeyer kirjoitti:
2 > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:35 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote:
3 >> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
4 >>
5 >>> On 14:52 Thu 05 Jun , Samuli Suominen wrote:
6 >>>> # Samuli Suominen <drac@g.o> (05 Jun 2008)
7 >>>> # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners.
8 >>>> # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724.
9 >>>> dev-libs/libffi
10 >>>> dev-lang/squeak
11 >>>> x11-libs/gtk-server
12 >>> The latest version of g-wrap (1.9.11) requires the external libffi
13 >>> released a month or two ago, because it looks for the pkgconfig file
14 >>> installed by that and not gcc:
15 >>>
16 >>> - libffi is no longer distributed with g-wrap, as it is available
17 >>> as a stand-alone package now (instead of being burried in the
18 >>> GCC sources).
19 >>>
20 >>> Thoughts?
21 >> I'd vote for an external libffi as well since python currently has to use
22 >> it's bundled version of it (statically linking against it).
23 >> Using libffi provided by gcc (and linking dynamically) is no option yet
24 >> since portage doesn't protect the user from destroying his system by
25 >> re-emerging gcc without gcj or libffi USE flags (rev-dep check and
26 >> USE-based deps would be needed).
27 >
28 > Isn't it always preferable to separate packages and break them down into
29 > peaces (in this case have an external libffi) instead of having big
30 > packages with lots of stuff (in this case GCC) ?
31 >
32
33 The proper solution is use deps.
34
35 Regards,
36 Petteri

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