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Hi, |
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:40:39 -0500 |
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Brian Jackson <iggy@g.o> wrote: |
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> Rafael Espíndola wrote: |
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> > I am using Gentoo to build some small systems. While things like the |
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> > minimal useflag is a joy, the monolithic nature of most gentoo |
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> > packages is a headache. |
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> > Kde has been spit and libstdc++ can be installed without gcc but there |
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> > are many other packages that don't have this feature. For example, |
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> > installing qt also installs qt designer. |
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> |
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> Use INSTALL_MASK to keep it from getting installed. Keep both pieces. |
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I think that it's not the way to go because this will create |
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the exact problem that existed with installing an incomplete |
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kde before there where split ebuilds for it. |
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And this problem is that when you emerge a package it expects |
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it's dependencies to have the things it'll use form them. And |
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with INSTALL_MASK you brake this assumption in a way that there |
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is no easy way for an ebuild to verify that it's dependencies |
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have installed the things that the package needs. |
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So I think it may be good for some packages to be split in |
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several packages (but right now I can't think of any), but I |
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think it'll be much better introduce more granularity into |
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many ebuils with use flags. This is specially the case (in |
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my opinion) of packages that can have both client and server |
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functionality (the best example I can think of is net-fs/samba, |
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which I mostly use just to mount shares form other servers). |
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Just my 2 non convertible (i.e. non developers) cents. |
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Yuri. |
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