[gentoo-dev] libmad and madplay in one package

[gentoo-dev] libmad and madplay in one package

[Christopher Sharp]

Hello,
I want to make an ebuild of madplay but as libmad and madplay are in one package I don't know how to deal with that. Should I make two ebuilds or
only one which installs both ?
Any suggestion appreciated ...

	- Christopher

Re: [gentoo-dev] libmad and madplay in one package

[George Shapovalov]

Hi Chris

On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:59, Christopher Sharp wrote:
> Hello,
> I want to make an ebuild of madplay but as libmad and madplay are in one
> package I don't know how to deal with that. Should I make two ebuilds or
> only one which installs both ?
That depends. 
Is libmad a very specific library designed to run solely with madplay and 
nothing else? 
Or rather can it be used by some other app?
Generally if there is a chance that it may be used by other apps it should be 
a separate package/ebuild (just use the same SRC_URI, anyway it will be 
fetched only once). Otherwise it is better to install it in the same ebuild 
as the sole app making use of it.

If you are not sure I think in your case it is a sufficiently safe bet to 
assume that the lib is quite specific and just creat one ebuild that will 
install both the lib and the app. If later-on you find some other app making 
use of this lib you can just split the ebuild. And yea, definitely make a 
note in the ChangeLog and probably the ebuild itself, that the lib is 
installed along the app. This way whoever comes by this issue will be able to 
easily handle it.

George

Re: [gentoo-dev] libmad and madplay in one package

[Christopher Sharp]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:07:54 -0700
George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Hi Chris
> 
> On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:59, Christopher Sharp wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I want to make an ebuild of madplay but as libmad and madplay are in one
> > package I don't know how to deal with that. Should I make two ebuilds or
> > only one which installs both ?
> That depends. 
> Is libmad a very specific library designed to run solely with madplay and 
> nothing else? 
> Or rather can it be used by some other app?
> Generally if there is a chance that it may be used by other apps it should be 
> a separate package/ebuild (just use the same SRC_URI, anyway it will be 
> fetched only once).

Hmm, the homepage shows a nice number of apps using MAD and I think most of the use the lib. I think I will do a seperate ebuild for libmad.
Thanks for your response :)

	- Christopher

Re: [gentoo-dev] libmad and madplay in one package

[Spider]

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On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:59:33 +0200
Christopher Sharp <csharp@freeshell.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to make an ebuild of madplay but as libmad and madplay are in
> one package I don't know how to deal with that. Should I make two
> ebuilds or only one which installs both ?
> Any suggestion appreciated ...
> 
> 	- Christopher

do not duplicate effort :

 qpkg  -v -f `which madplay`
media-sound/mad-0.14.2b-r1 *


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