Re: [gentoo-dev] [IMPORTANT] server/client USE flags

[Mike Williams <mike@gaima.co.uk>]

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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:00, Marius Mauch wrote:

> > It is not natural to stop at "client" and "server" flags either.
> > What about "dev" for .a and .h things?  This is really going down
> > the slipperly slope in my opinion.
>
> Maybe it's not natural to stop there (btw, I'm only for a "server" flag,
> not for a "client" flag), but it's reasonable. To make the "dev" stuff
> optional doesn't make much sense for Gentoo as dependencies usually need
> them, but usually there aren't dependencies on the server part of
> something.

As just "another technical user" I feel the client/server flags would a killer 
feature.
I have several Gentoo desktops, some mildly slow, and a number of servers. On 
all of the desktops I was mysql support to talk to my servers. It has always 
annoyed me that I have to install the server too, it's such a pointless waste 
of time and space.

If the client is always built, and the server too with the default flags 
no-one would know the difference until they went and turned server support 
off.

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Mike Williams
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