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 1G8ve0-00063h-29 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:07:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7495eUC000480; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:05:40 GMT Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [216.148.227.151]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7491YLL019373 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:01:35 GMT Received: from seldon (c-24-21-135-117.hsd1.or.comcast.net[24.21.135.117]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <20060804090132m1100l3ceie>; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:01:33 +0000 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:01:30 -0700 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax Message-ID: <20060804090130.GA15814@seldon> References: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA1D2911@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local> <44D2FD2A.6080505@gentoo.org> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D2FD2A.6080505@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: bc41a931-9de8-4791-93fc-80786e217205 X-Archives-Hash: 6deb08fc7bd89177902c0e460410dba4 --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:54:18AM +0200, Simon Stelling wrote: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >For example: mplayer > >It has it's gui-less player and an gtk-based frontend in one package. > >We should split this into two packages: mplayer and gmplayer. > >The chances to get this done in the upstream *before* some major > >distro like gentoo does the split by its own are quite low. >=20 > Not quite true. In reality, they're just the same. mplayer simply checks= =20 > whether it was called as mplayer or gmplayer. So you not only have two=20 > programs in one package, but even in one binary. Changing this behaviour= =20 > has nothing to do with packaging and is really upstream's responsibility,= =20 > IMHO. Additionally... once you start down that path, the changes to pkgs=20 become less then minor. Some are simple, some ain't. Personally, I hate that approach- ignoring any political/warring=20 idiocy, my main issue with debian is the choice to split upstream=20 packages into multiple sub packages. Makes things a pain in the ass=20 to what you want/need and makes for fun lock-step dependencies between=20 the subpackages. ~harring --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE0wzqvdBxRoA3VU0RAvaWAJ9MECNY9dw6awoIUeGkDiwrnAyTzgCg3ZNe SjyVOTy6E2ZGb83bJZdHsnE= =9xrb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --x+6KMIRAuhnl3hBn-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list