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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 20:30:06
Message-Id: f22ji0$vr4$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport by Jim Ramsay
1 Jim Ramsay wrote:
2
3 > This libflashsupport-1.2 will have the following use flags:
4 >
5 > pulseaudio oss esd ssl gnutls
6 >
7 > Now, I was thinking that it would be much easier for users if
8 > the netscape-flash ebuild automatically pulled this in, and was
9 > wondering the best way to do this. I have 2 ideas:
10 >
11 > 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) that will
12 > just pull in this dependency.
13 >
14 > 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with any of
15 > them adding libflashsupport to the dep list, since these are all global
16 > flags and will most likely be enabled for both netscape-flash and
17 > libflashsupport
18 >
19 > I'm personally thinking (1) is the better of the 2 options, but I'd
20 > like to know if anyone has any other wondrous solutions to this.
21
22 net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0 USE="libflashsupport -debug"
23 media-lib/libflashsupport-1.2 USE="esd gnutls oss pulseaudio ssl"
24
25 is the right way to do it.
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