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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FohcM-0007Lr-08 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:05:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k59E41cZ010844; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:04:01 GMT Received: from egr.msu.edu (jeeves.egr.msu.edu [35.9.37.127]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k59DweBN010643 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:58:40 GMT Received: from [35.9.129.93] (torx [35.9.129.93]) (authenticated bits=0) by egr.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k59DwY0W011607 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:58:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44897E5B.4010804@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:57:47 -0400 From: Alec Warner Organization: Gentoo User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8 (X11/20060424) 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] client+server packages - build which one? References: <200606091410.51183.uberlord@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200606091410.51183.uberlord@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: eadb6b88-7c47-472a-ada9-c46eea6182bc X-Archives-Hash: 817d7a5329ef5e1fc6a0a0b329f7b6d4 Roy Marples wrote: > Some packages provide both a client and a server. As such, users usually only > want one or the other - and rarely both. > > A good candidate is net-misc/dhcp as it installs a DHCP client and server. > Which makes no sense really, so I'd like to put some USE flags here to show > what I want, or not want to build. > > A quick scan through the use flags show no real consistency, so here's what I > propose > > USE client server > client - just build the client - duh > server - just build the server - duh > client and server OR neither then build both. > > Other packages to possably beneift > udhcp > mldonkey > samhain > bacula > boxbackup > > Interestingly, many packages have a server USE flag but not a client one - > maybe make both a global USE flag? > > Good idea? Bad idea? Thoughts? > My thought is wait until portage-2.2_alpha where we will have default USE flags. Then I can see putting client/server flags up and having both be default, letting the user turn off clients and servers in /etc/portage/package.use. > Thanks > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list