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Hi all, |
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various packages have detection scripts in their configure. Basically |
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those scripts implement optional support. In many cases these configure |
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scripts can be told to ignore an available lib. Some scripts however can |
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not be told so. |
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What I would want your opinion on is a new variable (DYNRDEPEND) that |
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contains a list of packages that will depended on when they are |
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available at runtime. This would need to be implemented with logic to |
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actually record the existence of those packages in the metadata for |
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binary or installed packages. |
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I believe such a variable would make many packages more transparent and |
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would allow for optional dependencies to be used in more cases. As such |
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I think it will help avoiding bloat. |
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Paul |
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ps. As a sidenote it would be usefull with subversion which can build |
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it's own apache2 libs when apache2 is not there. Currently it uses the |
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apache2 useflag for this which has a number of drawbacks. |
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pps. This might also help in making useflags more clear or even against |
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useflag hell (too many with different results) |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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