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Hi all, |
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Disclaimer: This is one of those laying-in-bed-trying-to-get-to-sleep |
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ideas. |
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Some packages require a specific tool to unpack or aid in building of |
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said package - rpm2targz is an example. For a lot of users rpm2targz |
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will stay installed on their system unused for X amount of time. If a |
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new DEPEND were available (say UDEPEND) users could opt to have those |
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dependencies uninstalled via a FEATURES flag once the parent package had |
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finished installing. |
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Advantages: |
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A little less bloat |
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Potentialy one less tool a cracker could use (same idea as having too |
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many wooden items in once location, which could be considered a fire |
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risk) |
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Disadvantages: |
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One more thing for devs to remember? I can't think of any atm :) |
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Not much of a killer feature, but atleast one user may find it handy... |
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Regards |
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Ian Leitch |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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GPG Public Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~port001/port001-pgp-key.asc |
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Fingerprint: 91AE 2E49 3DE6 B714 E0F0 D2E3 79F6 7879 6017 4462 |
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