From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JmXfP-0003aJ-4R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:12:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8018BE0541; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EC8E0541 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (8.13.3/8.13.3) with UUCP id m3HHCffP010068 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:12:41 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by nibiru.metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id m3HH7svj012065 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:07:54 +0200 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:07:54 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PostgreSQL Status Message-ID: <20080417170753.GE31409@nibiru.local> References: <4807115C.6090904@gentoo.org> <20080417164003.GB31409@nibiru.local> <8b4c83ad0804170952s5728a968v60f04f30a66e3a25@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.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: <8b4c83ad0804170952s5728a968v60f04f30a66e3a25@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Terror: bin laden, kill bush, Briefbombe, Massenvernichtung, KZ, X-Nazi: Weisse Rasse, Hitlers Wiederauferstehung, 42, X-Antichrist: weg mit schaeuble, ausrotten, heiliger krieg, al quaida, X-Killer: 23, endloesung, Weltuntergang, X-Doof: wer das liest ist doof X-Archives-Salt: 04b33b75-3040-4823-9540-6dd4f0cb4007 X-Archives-Hash: e65d9ecb897f5dbc5143477bdd8e029b * Nirbheek Chauhan schrieb: > > It's bad, just because Debian does it ?! > > Yes, because their technical design is different from Gentoo's. Still too religious ;-P Would be different if you'd said "we don't need to split since we have useflags" or "we want to stay as near to upstream as possible" instead of "we're not debian". Being different, just to be different is really too pubertal for me ;-o > Debian/$binary_distro have to split up packages because they have no > other way of mapping configure flags to what the user wants to > install. Gentoo does, and they're called USE flags. Right, binary distros have a much bigger presure on that, but this doesn't mean that splitting is always bad. Think of all these useflag-deps, which often wouldn't be necessary if the packages would be split in finer granularity. Of course, this is mostly the upstream's fault. 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@lists.gentoo.org mailing list