From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FogqY-0001Z9-Al for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:16:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k59DFFSK023099; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:15:15 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k59DB7Co010748 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:11:07 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.31] (uberlaptop.marples.name [10.73.1.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF25190034 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:11:06 +0100 (BST) From: Roy Marples Organization: Gentoo/Linux To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one? Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:10:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606091410.51183.uberlord@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4f95c922-168e-486e-bf74-98c5420526ef X-Archives-Hash: bffd821fc6e48705a04e70b1c8c6eec1 Some packages provide both a client and a server. As such, users usually only want one or the other - and rarely both. A good candidate is net-misc/dhcp as it installs a DHCP client and server. Which makes no sense really, so I'd like to put some USE flags here to show what I want, or not want to build. A quick scan through the use flags show no real consistency, so here's what I propose USE client server client - just build the client - duh server - just build the server - duh client and server OR neither then build both. Other packages to possably beneift udhcp mldonkey samhain bacula boxbackup Interestingly, many packages have a server USE flag but not a client one - maybe make both a global USE flag? Good idea? Bad idea? Thoughts? Thanks -- Roy Marples Gentoo/Linux Developer (baselayout, networking) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list