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Ever heard of use dependencies? Way you are proposing this is just |
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more work and no solutions to real problems. |
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On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> while building yum, I again ran into trouble because one |
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> dependency has to be rebuilt with an specific useflag first |
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> (in this case it was libxml2 + python useflag). Actually, |
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> there are *lots* of these cases and (AFAIK) portage has no |
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> way for properly handling this - it's up to the individual |
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> ebuilds to check for those situations and artifically breaking |
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> the build. Of coure, breaking builds are ugly. |
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> My suggestion: make those language bindings being separate |
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> packages. So, other packages can depend on them directly, |
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> instead of the current, build-breaking hack. |
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> I'm not advocating gentoo should do this step alone, but |
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> instead join in the upstream and solve it there. |
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> cu |
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Thanks |
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