Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one?

[Roy Marples]

On Friday 09 June 2006 20:04, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 17:43 +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > On Friday 09 June 2006 14:10, Roy Marples wrote:
> > > Some packages provide both a client and a server. As such, users
> > > usually only want one or the other - and rarely both.
> >
> > Thanks to wolf31o2 for pointing out that current policy dictates that we
> > install both by default and the minimal USE flag should be used to stop
> > server only compoment from installing.
>
> Not policy (I don't think) but current accepted practice.
>
> Should this become a policy?

I think so, as many packages provide such a split and it would make choosing 
flags a little easier :)

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Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
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