Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one?

[Brian Harring]

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:11:59AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 09:56, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > If you want an dhcp client, install "dhcp-client", if you
> > want an dhcp server, install "dhcp-server". Could it be simpler ?
>
> Maybe you missed the part of the discussion where we thought that maintaing 3
> ebuilds vs 1 ebuild was a bad idea. Yes we would need 3 due to the way that
> the dhcp builds and installs.

There also is the fun part of how seperation of pkgs actually is 
accomplished- have to maintain a list of which files go where.

Manually.

And because of FEATURES=collision-protect, you have to verify the 
bugger, and update it for every verbump.

Lot of manual work. :)

~harring