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

[Jim Ramsay]

I am about to add libflashsupport[1] to the tree, which optionally adds
pulseaudio, oss, esd, and ssl (via openssl or gnutls) support to
netscape-flash-9.0.31.0

This libflashsupport-1.2 will have the following use flags:

  pulseaudio oss esd ssl gnutls

Now, I was thinking that it would be much easier for users if
the netscape-flash ebuild automatically pulled this in, and was
wondering the best way to do this.  I have 2 ideas:

1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) that will
just pull in this dependency.

2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with any of
them adding libflashsupport to the dep list, since these are all global
flags and will most likely be enabled for both netscape-flash and
libflashsupport

I'm personally thinking (1) is the better of the 2 options, but I'd
like to know if anyone has any other wondrous solutions to this.

[1] http://pulseaudio.revolutionlinux.com/PulseAudio

-- 
Jim Ramsay
Gentoo/Linux Developer (rox,gkrellm)