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On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:55:10 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> Yes, basically my philosophy is only to list in world the actual |
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> programs I want to use. |
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Same here, which is why I recommended editing the world file. Anything |
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you don't use directly can go. It's also a good way of cleaning |
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out those programs that you installed, thinking they were a good |
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idea, but never used. |
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> Some packages have optional run-time deps, say a multimedia |
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> program that can convert files if you have ffmpeg installed, so in |
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> those cases those optional packages will also be in world. |
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That shouldn't happen. Portage is supposed to control everything with USE |
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flags. In your example. the ebuild should run configure with either the |
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--enable-ffmpeg or --disable-ffmpeg option, depending on your flags. |
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Compile time features are to be controlled by the user, not decided for |
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him by the configure script. That's the Gentoo way. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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NOTE: In order to control energy costs the light at the end |
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of the tunnel has been shut off until further notice... |
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