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On 31 August 2012 11:05, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 31/08/12 10:56 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote: |
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>> Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> I believe that the more important direction here is to make |
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>>> development *easier*, not harder. Adding the same DEPENDs over |
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>>> and over again to every single package is at least frustrating. |
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>>> Similarly frustrating would be if those 'reduced systems' had to |
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>>> rebuild gcc every time they wanted to compile something... oh |
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>>> wait, they would have to bootstrap it every time. |
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>> you would achieve it better by adding pkgconfig to DEPEND in |
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>> eutils.eclass than putting it in @system since in the latter case |
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>> it would also be a RDEPEND of everything basically |
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> And realistically that's where the DEPEND should be anyways, IMO -- |
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> appended by the eclass where the function is that uses it. If this |
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> means prune_libtool_files() gets separated out of eutils and put in |
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> its own eclass (so that all the eutils inheritors don't suddenly need |
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> virtual/pkgconfig unnecessarily), then so be it. |
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Also, I think that before many of these large changes happen, pkgconf |
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should become the default choice for the virtual. I'm sure embedded or |
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server users don't need/want Glib on their systems. |
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