Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

[Olivier Crête]

On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 12:12 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote:
> Josh Saddler wrote:
> > Jim Ramsay wrote:
> > > I suppose I could also propose:
> > >
> > > 4) netscape-flash just RDEPENDS on libflashsupport all the time.
> > > It's certainly not a large library to be added on.
> > >
> >
> > That is a terrible idea. Don't make it "depend" on something that it
> > clearly does *not* depend on. Flash works just fine without the
> > optional add-ons, and those are *definitely* optional. I've never
> > needed libflashsupport and would prefer not seeing useless cruft
> > attached to a perfectly working Flash installation.
>
> Point taken - If you don't want the extra features you don't want
> libflashsupport at all.
>
> I could make it so that if all of the USE flags for libflashsupport are
> turned off it doesn't actually install the library at all, just gets
> added to the list of installed packages.
>
> > If you're going to add it to USE, then make sure it's *not* on by
> > default, thanks.
>
> This way it will adhere to your current set of global USE flags. If you
> have pulseaudio, esd, oss, ssl, or gnutls on globally, it will install
> libflashsupport with the appropriate hooks in it.  If they are all
> off (either globally or specifically for libflashsupport) you will
> just get the same old netscape-flash with no add-ons.
>
> Is this a worthy compromise?

This seems even worse.. I think either having one local use flag in
netscape-flash is probably the best solution.. The second best is to
have all of the use flags and RDEPEND on flash-support if any is
enabled.

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Olivier Crête
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Gentoo Developer