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 1JraQa-0000bT-IF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 15:10:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D319FE00D9; Thu, 1 May 2008 15:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7566E00D9 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 15:10:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE3A65BC6 for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 15:10:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.994 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.994 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.395, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Y353JcF1RulF for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 15:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7279B648DC for ; Thu, 1 May 2008 15:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by s15216962.onlinehome-server.info (8.13.3/8.13.3) with UUCP id m41FAG1q027748 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 1 May 2008 17:10:16 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by nibiru.metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id m41F9UTs000709 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 1 May 2008 17:09:30 +0200 Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 17:09:30 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo developers Subject: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages Message-ID: <20080501150930.GA25855@nibiru.local> 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 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: 87145b5a-f65c-4c6a-8cea-500fb67f99ae X-Archives-Hash: ba9c578a1da977d7e934c0d8f4635b21 Hi folks, while building yum, I again ran into trouble because one dependency has to be rebuilt with an specific useflag first (in this case it was libxml2 + python useflag). Actually, there are *lots* of these cases and (AFAIK) portage has no way for properly handling this - it's up to the individual ebuilds to check for those situations and artifically breaking the build. Of coure, breaking builds are ugly. My suggestion: make those language bindings being separate packages. So, other packages can depend on them directly, instead of the current, build-breaking hack. I'm not advocating gentoo should do this step alone, but instead join in the upstream and solve it there. 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