Re: [gentoo-dev] sawfish-0.38.ebuild

[AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

Terje Kvernes wrote:
> 
> AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) writes:
> 
> > I don't think we need any other extra functionality in portage to
> > take care about the order of vars in USE.
> 
>   what you're basically saying is that it's up to the person making
>   each build to make the choice of which lib to prioritize.
>   personally, I find this rather icky, because it demands that the
>   person installing the packages can't say "media(gdkpixbuf,imlib) and
>   be sure that nothing ever needing just gdkpixbuf won't install
>   imlib.
> 
>   the dependency is in the wrong place, it should be with the
>   maintainer of the box, not the maintainer of the package. the person
>   packing the stuff _might_ have a reason for wanting one thing, while
>   another user might need something else.
> 
>   just think of a package that could select between using a kde or a
>   gnome wrapping. the packagers personal choice isn't what I want. :-)
> 
Well gdkpixbuf depends on gnome-libs which depends on imlib.

achim~

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> Terje
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