Re: [gentoo-dev] debianutils: system worthy ?

["Matthias B." <msbREMOVE-THIS@winterdrache.de>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:59:39 +0200 Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> Krzysiek Pawlik kirjoitti:
> > Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
> >> I would say drop it from system and add to RDEPEND in kernel-2.eclass
> >> for ${ETYPE} == sources.
> > 
> > IMHO that's a bad idea - everybody use some kernel sources, but not 
> > everybody runs `make install'. I'm for dropping debianutils from
> > system.
> > 
> 
> BSD, prefix etc. I would say breaking make install is worse than 
> requiring people to keep debianutils installed. They can just use 
> package.provided if they want to get rid of it.

What's wrong with making it an optional dependency? Something like a
useflag 

makeinstall - Set this if you use 'make install' to install your kernels.

which would trigger the dependency. That way, both groups of people have
their way without breaking dependencies, right?

MSB

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