From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5m8A-00035F-JM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:16:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7IFFuHQ024324; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:15:56 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7IFEG1l014730 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:14:16 GMT Received: from mirage.cns.ksu.edu ([129.130.0.165]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1E5m5v-0001dE-9J for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:14:15 +0000 Message-ID: <4304A59D.8050901@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:13:33 -0500 From: Lance Albertson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050731) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuild design issue regarding some {I need the lib and api only}-DEPENDs References: <200508181628.44059.trapni@gentoo.org> <200508181040.46106.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200508181040.46106.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig085ABAA5D403987EFD43CB0A" X-Archives-Salt: f2125b87-bc2a-4894-af10-81263bec8ab3 X-Archives-Hash: 2f008d83856eae2122e1e3664cf227f8 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig085ABAA5D403987EFD43CB0A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:28 am, Christian Parpart wrote: > >>Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this? > > > general policy is to not split packages (and i agree with this ...) bind and bind-tools is split ;) Why is it so bad to split packages? (I'm just curious) Seems a bit odd that we can't have a library only, client only, etc package like the other distros. Of course, I understand that we could use useflags for that, but is that really the best solution for this particular issue? Oh well, I'm just a sysadmin, not a coder so I'll got back to my cave. ;) -- Lance Albertson Gentoo Infrastructure | Operations Manager --- GPG Public Key: Key fingerprint: 0423 92F3 544A 1282 5AB1 4D07 416F A15D 27F4 B742 ramereth/irc.freenode.net --------------enig085ABAA5D403987EFD43CB0A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDBKWgQW+hXSf0t0IRAkijAJ9aaG0tfTISpYMTbR/PBG39lIEHUwCdGbct gM8mXBFlTClQ6kPuSb/iQ3o= =MK20 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig085ABAA5D403987EFD43CB0A-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list