From: "Johannes Ballé" <joba123@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild programming question
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:32:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211200132.40258.joba123@arcor.de> (raw)
Hello developers,
I am new to ebuild programming, please excuse me asking (maybe trivial)
questions here I couldn't find answers for elsewhere.
The basic problem of ebuild programming seems to be that you need to map "USE"
options from the portage system to the "configure" options of the package
source.
Many packages come with the ability to auto-detect certain features, though.
One example: the em8300-libraries package provides a library and several tools
to run an MPEG-decoder PCI card. Some of these tools need gtk, others only
need a text console. A user may wish to omit installation of the gtk tools
(on X-less boxes, for example).
Would it be considered bad practice to put a dependency like "gtk? ( gtk... )"
into the ebuild, but leave it to the configure script to sort out whether gtk
is installed or not (hence, whether to compile the gtk tools or not)?
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Johannes Ballé <joba123@arcor.de>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-20 0:32 Johannes Ballé [this message]
2002-11-20 1:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Ebuild programming question Michael Cummings
2002-11-20 7:52 ` Johannes Ballé
2002-11-20 14:05 ` Karl Trygve Kalleberg
2002-11-21 15:42 ` Johannes Ballé
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