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 4.50) id 1EUvWv-0000Ud-0q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:22:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9R0KZIJ025225; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:20:35 GMT Received: from smtp0.libero.it (smtp0.libero.it [193.70.192.33]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9R0GU2Z009086 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:16:30 GMT Received: from localhost (172.16.1.79) by smtp0.libero.it (7.0.027-DD01) id 431C399303D9451F for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:16:30 +0200 Received: from smtp2.libero.it ([172.16.1.97]) by localhost (asav1.libero.it [193.70.192.150]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16396-01 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:16:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (adsl-ull-199-63.44-151.net24.it [151.44.63.199]) by smtp2.libero.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id D105DA8C0D for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:16:29 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <43601C3B.5090507@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 02:15:55 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051004) 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] Reminder on dependencies. References: <1130199485.1413.3.camel@Darkmere.darkmere> <1130270701.8911.89.camel@alto> <20051025213812.3ab52c01@snowdrop.home> <200510261058.22810.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200510261058.22810.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned: with antispam and antivirus automated system at libero.it X-Archives-Salt: 7bfc8551-4be9-4bf0-a9d8-f2de0877e413 X-Archives-Hash: 3a0555dafc57a61a52289d1b5812f719 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > I agree here. If you don't want packages to be pulled in because of header > files, you need support for that (perhaps in the form of subpackages, or > a useflag). But IF the header files of a package are installed one should > be able to assume that they keep on working. Even after buildtime-only > dependencies have been removed. I agree too > > In the case of embedded it is clear that what in binary distributions is > part of the development package (.la files, static libraries, header > files) is not desired at all. To break dependencies to only strip away > some of the headers seems to me a half solution that breaks a lot and > doesn't solve the problem either. > > Paul > Btw embedded has already different way to archive the same result (ok, removing headers and static libs after isn't really the cleanest solution but works fine) lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Developer Gentoo/PPC Operational Leader http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list