Re: [gentoo-dev] Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

["Olivier Crête" <tester@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2007-10-05 at 14:20 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote:
> Jim Ramsay wrote:
> > 
> > 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) that will
> > just pull in this dependency.
> > 
> > 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with any of
> > them adding libflashsupport to the dep list, since these are all global
> > flags and will most likely be enabled for both netscape-flash and
> > libflashsupport
> > 
> > I'm personally thinking (1) is the better of the 2 options, but I'd
> > like to know if anyone has any other wondrous solutions to this.
> 
> Does/will anything else dep on flashsupport? If not, why not just add
> the USE flags to netscape-flash and install libflashsupport as part of
> the netscape-flash install instead of a separate package.

If its a separate package that will be updated separately, then it
doesn't make sense to put it in the separate package and I support
option 1. Otherwise, if they'll always be together, then just put it in
the same package.

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@gentoo.org
Gentoo Developer

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