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 1GA5Yf-0005NR-0X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:54:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k77DqF1C010369; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:52:15 GMT Received: from forum.psychotherapie.org (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k77DmHsA031435 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:48:17 GMT Received: (from uucp@localhost) by forum.psychotherapie.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/SuSE Linux 0.7) with UUCP id k77DmHFx001201 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:48:17 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id k77Dm2wA025995 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:48:02 +0200 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:48:02 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax Message-ID: <20060807134802.GH25236@nibiru.local> References: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA1D2911@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local> <44D2FD2A.6080505@gentoo.org> <20060804090130.GA15814@seldon> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060804090130.GA15814@seldon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Archives-Salt: 253c7f09-6d7e-43b6-91f0-9f7cad57c53a X-Archives-Hash: b3819c8a0c29325847dad20ab5b2fa3d * Brian Harring schrieb: > Additionally... once you start down that path, the changes to > pkgs become less then minor. Some are simple, some ain't. If it's required to get them clean, then it shall be done. (I'm actually doing thins @ oss-qm) > Personally, I hate that approach- ignoring any political/warring > idiocy, my main issue with debian is the choice to split upstream > packages into multiple sub packages. Makes things a pain in the ass > to what you want/need and makes for fun lock-step dependencies between > the subpackages. That's just because Debian has to do the upstream's work. The only charge I can make them here, is that they're working too silent instead of making heavy noise in the upstream so that they actually learn what they're doing wrong. It's like washing a child day by day and never showing him why it's wise to wash yourself and how to do it. Let's take a better example: nmap This package actually contains two completely different things: the portscanner tool and some gtk-based frontend. In fact the "gtk" useflag switches the second package. They're in fact two different applications (just one shipped as an subdir of another) and so should have two ebuilds. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list