From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlTTb-0007uh-Ja for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:13:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BBE63E0B8D; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:13:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5AAE0B80 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69971B40E2 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:13:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -4.342 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.342 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.743, 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 gSCTguJlKl53 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:13:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgate.caprica.metux.de (caprica.metux.de [82.165.128.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 245491B4117 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:13:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailgate.caprica.metux.de (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailgate.caprica.metux.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7HLD1wa026481 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:13:01 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mailgate.caprica.metux.de (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with UUCP id o7HLCfqM026455 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:12:41 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by nibiru.metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id o7HL5FeE025106 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:05:15 +0200 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:05:14 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages Message-ID: <20100817210514.GC24806@nibiru.local> References: <20100625201738.GA4789@nibiru.local> <201006252338.51889.alan.mckinnon@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: <201006252338.51889.alan.mckinnon@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: d1991c33-4e2d-41cd-a254-9025a17f5460 X-Archives-Hash: 48af958e584c57060ba3d48e4540373b * Alan McKinnon schrieb: > My biggest beef by far when packaging apps is automagic dependencies. > > e17 is full of them - if package A is present, the app will configure itself > to use it. Usually you cannot switch this kind of thing off even if you have > valid reasons to do so. That's one of the reasons I'm building everything by a sysroot'ed crosscompiler (when not using Gentoo ;-)). This way these things (normally) can't happen. > I want explicit --enable- features in the ./configure step for > everything that might be optional. Because I often do have that lib on my > system and the app's usage of it is buggy, so I should be able to disable that > support. Can you live with the current formulation ? http://www.metux.de/index.php/de/component/content/article/57.html (see and of the text) cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------