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On Thursday 25 September 2008 23:43:07 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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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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That would indeed be a truly wonderful thing... |
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If only the ./configure authors would put the damn --enable- in the script in |
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the first place <grumble> <grumble> |
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which means you can force support for it to be present via DEPEND but not |
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remove support if the dep is present and shouldn't be <mutter><mutter> |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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