From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN,DMARC_MISSING,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailb.telia.com ([194.22.194.6]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #1) id 15kqa7-0006rU-00 for gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:28:47 -0600 Received: from d1o811.telia.com (d1o811.telia.com [213.66.246.241]) by mailb.telia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8MHS0918933 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:28:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from post.netlink.se (h242n1fls34o811.telia.com [213.67.102.242]) by d1o811.telia.com (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f8MHS0r04034 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:28:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3BACCA12.9030001@post.netlink.se> From: Morgan Christiansson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy with dependencies References: <20010922190031.A1441@prosalg.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@cvs.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org X-Reply-To: mog@linux.nu List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat Sep 22 11:29:05 2001 X-Original-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:27:46 +0200 X-Archives-Salt: 2e96c62e-fe2c-406c-bf05-8344a6bf8919 X-Archives-Hash: c1b97541c1b74866fdce1281914c1578 You could add dependencies only if use gtk is set, and/or only install if use gtk is set. Anyway this shouldn't be up to the developer, but there should be a policy for this. Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote: >I'm working on packaging a system tool called subterfugue [sic]. It can be >thought of as a very jazzed up version of strace. > >It is written Python. Some of its operating modes, such as NetThrottle >(sets a limit on the bandwidth a particular process may eat) requires >pygtk, but most (if not all) the other scripts for subterfugue do not. > >For sf to depend on pygtk, it will depend on gnome, x11 and a slew of >other packages, even though 95% of sf itself is ideally suited for an >X-free (no X) box. > >Merging in pygtk later on makes it work perfectly. > >Should I just make a not in post_install() about this, and don't bother >with the pygtk dependency ? > > >Kind regards, > >Karl T > >_______________________________________________ >gentoo-dev mailing list >gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org >http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev > >. >