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On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 17:24 +0200, Bernd Waibel wrote: |
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> Hello Gentoo devs, |
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> I have been maintaining the Qt5 updated media-gfx/freecad-0.18* for some |
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> time in my overlay[1]. As far as I can see, all dependencies have either |
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> been released in the main portage tree, or have blocking bugs open[2][3][4]. |
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> To develop the re-adding of the package further, I'd like to discuss the |
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> possibility of adding a USE_EXPAND variable called FREECAD_MODULES as noted |
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> in profiles/base/make.defaults. |
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> Rationale |
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> FreeCAD has a modular design of different so-called workspaces. This |
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> enables the program to be built for the particular purposes of i.e. |
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> architectural CAD, engineering CAD, FEM, ship design and even raytracing or |
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> robot simulation. Those workspaces can, to some extent, be built |
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> independently of each other. They are dependant on some basic modules which |
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> serve as the core engine of the program. |
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> To give the user the possibility to build FreeCAD depending on it's needs, |
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> the FREECAD_MODULES should be used. |
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> Currently the variable has ~40 modules defined. For a complete list, I'd |
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> like to refer to the ebuild in my overlay. I'm open for discussion on the |
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> list of modules, it might be possible, that some of them are better placed |
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> in USE flags. |
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> I hope, this variable get's an approval from the devs. I personally found |
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> the alternative, to use a whole lot of USE flags less elegant than this |
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> solution. |
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If this is used by a single package only, it doesn't belong in |
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USE_EXPAND. Just define local flags. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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