Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in dev-lang/ifc: metadata.xml ChangeLog ifc-10.0.026.ebuild

[Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>]

On 19:16 Mon 01 Oct     , Sébastien Fabbro wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 13:53 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > 1.1                  dev-lang/ifc/ifc-10.0.026.ebuild
> 
> > > 	INSTALL_DIR=/opt/intel/${PB}${ext}/${PV}
> > > 
> > > 	if use debugger && [[ ! -x /opt/intel/idb${ext}/${PV}/bin/idb ]]; then
> > > 		INSTALL_IDB_DIR=/opt/intel/idb${ext}/${PV}
> > > 	else
> > > 		use debugger && einfo "Debugger already installed"
> > > 		rm -f data/intel*idb*.rpm
> > > 	fi
> > 
> > Could you explain what this is doing? Does some other package (icc?) 
> > also install the debugger? Perhaps it should get split off into a 
> > separate package.
> 
> Yes, icc can install the same debugger. I thought about splitting idb in
> another package but it would need either the ifc or the icc tar ball. I
> thought the "or" was not supported in SRC_URI/unpack. Forcing the tar
> ball of icc would force the ifc users to download icc one (at least
> 40Mb) when not necessary, and vice-versa. There are probably solutions
> to this problem, but I could not think of a simple one. Any suggestion
> welcome.

As kind of a hack solution, the idb package could have icc/ifc USE flags 
to pick which tarball it used.

Thanks,
Donnie
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