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On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:45:05AM -0600, Keziah W wrote: |
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> I got this idea and I'm not sure if it would be feasible, but if it is, |
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> it could lead to many Cool Things: |
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> Is there any reason not to have dynamic libraries for most of the |
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> changes made by USE flags, that are used only if present, and then the |
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> USE flags would just specify whether to compile that library? |
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These type of dependencies are already in use by quite a lot of packages. |
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For instance, |
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DEPEND="blabla |
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opengl? ( >= x11-base/opengl-update-2.2.0 ) |
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..." |
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If you haven't set USE="opengl" prior to the installation and you have |
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altered your USE variable to contain opengl afterwards, a simple |
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emerge --update --deep --newuse world |
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will trigger the USE-flag change and rebuild the package with the "new" |
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dependency. |
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This isn't always possible though, sometimes packages have the required |
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support code in their own code; trying to separate that from the "core" is a |
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difficult and time-consuming job. If upstream doesn't do this, it would be |
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a pain for Gentoo to perform and maintain. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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