From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11746 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Nov 2003 09:46:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2004 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 09:46:09 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:46:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031104002017.71d91fc0.genone@gentoo.org> <200311050139.27597.luke-jr@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311051046.07921.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [IMPORTANT] server/client USE flags X-Archives-Salt: 772d0884-601e-4997-8994-0614734aa623 X-Archives-Hash: 61f6f192af244c38f5b10a693a6a4b9d =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 05 November 2003 03:23, Terje Kvernes wrote: > Luke-Jr writes: > > On Wednesday 05 November 2003 01:24 am, Terje Kvernes wrote: > > > [1] I'm not sure how we'd like to denote subpackages, '-' and > > > '_' are sort of taken. > > > > emerge kde > > emerge kde/kdenetwork > > emerge kde/kdenetwork/kmail > > hm, could we ever get conflict between a subpackage and a catagory? > or are we more looking to say that conceptually we're looking at the > same ting? ;-) There are enough symbols on the keyboard to have a good delimiter.=20 However what is needed too is a concept on how to do it. Are subpackages=20 compiletime or installtime. Or do we allow both? =46or example if you want kmail only from kdenetwork many parts of=20 kdenetwork can be left alone (some support libs not), and don't even=20 need to be compiled. In that case it would be possible to have dependant=20 packages specify which subpackages they need, and have them added=20 on-demand if needed (be aware of compiletimes). Installtime is also possible, where packages are fully compiled but=20 partially installed. If a binary package exists it then is possible to=20 do ondemand installation of subpackages without recompiles being=20 necessary. However with installtime subpackages there is the problem of=20 identifying which files should be part of the subpackages. This does not mean that I am principally against subpackages, but that=20 subpackages are indeed complex and probably need to wait for portage-ng=20 for support. Paul =2D --=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qMbfbKx5DBjWFdsRAo+AAKCRxnv1bBiAdZ5JmN06AOKBDzeW/QCgzZvJ vdHsUO1U6hQbBjituNnbN4Y=3D =3DfeWv =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list