[gentoo-dev] Depedencies of kde ebuilds?

[gentoo-dev] Depedencies of kde ebuilds?

[Sergey Kuleshov]

Hullo,
I was wondering recently about the way the dependencies of kde
packages are made. For example I want to emerge kdeaddons, as the 
dependencies it requires me to install kdemultimedia and kdegames.
However, strictly speaking kdeaddons does not require aby of these
packages and I don't see the point why I should actually need them?
IMHO (kdegames - well they are not that good ;) kdemultimedia - xmms+xine - 
rules!)

So, what I am suggesting is why not add a local USE flag, something like
no_kde_mult ans no_kde_games, so that users could emerge addons without
having to compile the above named packages?

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Sergey Kuleshov <sergey@til-design.com>
Studio Programer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Depedencies of kde ebuilds?

[Dan Armak]

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On Tuesday 29 April 2003 20:26, Sergey Kuleshov wrote:
> Hullo,
> I was wondering recently about the way the dependencies of kde
> packages are made. For example I want to emerge kdeaddons, as the
> dependencies it requires me to install kdemultimedia and kdegames.
> However, strictly speaking kdeaddons does not require aby of these
> packages and I don't see the point why I should actually need them?
> IMHO (kdegames - well they are not that good ;) kdemultimedia - xmms+xine -
> rules!)

kdeaddons contains addons for apps from kdemultimedia and kdegames among 
others; the headers of those packages are iirc necessary to compile these 
addons.

>
> So, what I am suggesting is why not add a local USE flag, something like
> no_kde_mult ans no_kde_games, so that users could emerge addons without
> having to compile the above named packages?

I'm not sure whether our policy says that a local use flag should be 
introduced wherever possible. Not that I have anything much against this 
specific instance, but there are many other places where similar requests 
could be made, which would be a bother. Any other dev, or kde user, care to 
comment?

BTW, you could try e.g. KDE_REMOVE_DIR="noatun-plugins atlantikdesigner" 
emerge kdeaddons-3.1.1-r1.ebuild. This is a hack though and may even stop 
working one day, so I only mention it as a curiosity :-)

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel
Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key

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