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On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:20, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> currently we have a lot of packages in the portage tree that provide |
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> both server and client implementations of a package, big things like |
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> mysql and samba but also small stuff like telnet-bsd. Often people don't |
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> need the server part of these packages, but currently there is no way to |
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> disable them. Some packages have splitted the package, but this is IMO |
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> not a good idea in general, as often the ebuilds are the same except for |
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> one or two commands. |
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> So my idea (as well as others) is to add a new "server" USE flag that |
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> controls wether the server part of a package is build. This idea is |
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> outlined in more details on bug 12499, which also had the idea of a |
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> "client" USE flag, so that it's possible to only build the libs or only |
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> the server, however I think that such a flag will create more problems |
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> than benefits (see the bug for explanations). |
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> So, I'd like to get some opinions/comments from people on this idea, as |
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> this is coming up about every month and there wasn't really any action |
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> to solve this issue. |
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> Marius |
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I like this idea, it makes sense and seems more logical than a client |
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USE flag. |
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I think that a *big fat notice* in /etc/make.conf should be included |
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just above the USE=... line though, something like: |
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# If you intend to use this machine as a server and require both |
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# client/server portions of packages like mysql or samba installed then |
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# ensure that you include "server" in your USE flags below. |
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Hopefully this will go some way to reducing all the "I emerged samba but |
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didn't get smbd/nmbd" bugs that are likely to come about. |
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A GWN or simply a News item as well as a post to gentoo-announce should |
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be made when this is implemented in the ebuilds. |
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