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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ACE gcc and libc dependency
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:32:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110504123207.57fdc7dc@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikW0_JDZw1oD6yp8ndFiS0RNPFkog@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, 4 May 2011 14:09:03 +0300
Kfir Lavi <lavi.kfir@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe we should add a new USE flag that will install just the
> > libraries.
>
> (USE="justlibs")

Then you'd have to update nearly every package that deps upon GCC to
have a [-justlibs] dependency. Arguably not so bad for GCC, but in
general it's a huge problem, and it's the reason [client] and [server]
flags aren't popular.

(And if features like those are desired, please don't start updating
zillions of ebuilds with [-blah] flags. Ask for an EAPI feature that
lets flags in IUSE be marked as "require me this way unless something
explicitly says otherwise"...)

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03 15:27 [gentoo-dev] ACE gcc and libc dependency Kfir Lavi
2011-05-03 15:53 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-05-03 16:15   ` Mike Gilbert
2011-05-04 11:09     ` Kfir Lavi
2011-05-04 11:32       ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2011-05-03 16:53   ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò

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