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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:58:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4489C4DD.6020108@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1149878957.22473.73.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net>

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Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> The truth is that we don't ever want to become like the binary
> distributions.  We don't want to have to have separate
> client/server/common/devel as it removes many of the advantages that
> Gentoo has.  The default should *always* be to install the package as it
> was intended from upstream, completely intact.  Now, it has started to
> become a practice to have a "minimal" USE flag on certain packages that
> reduces the functionality to the bare client portion.  I see no real
> problem with this, so long as the default is to always build/install the
> full package.

I suppose we should get the "server" flag on cvs changed to "minimal," then.

Thanks,
Donnie


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-09 13:10 [gentoo-dev] client+server packages - build which one? Roy Marples
2006-06-09 13:55 ` George Shapovalov
2006-06-09 13:57 ` Alec Warner
2006-06-09 14:31 ` Patrick McLean
2006-06-09 17:15   ` Luca Barbato
2006-06-09 16:43 ` Roy Marples
2006-06-09 19:04   ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-06-09 19:13     ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-06-09 19:27     ` Roy Marples
2006-06-09 20:22     ` Mike Frysinger
2006-06-09 21:14       ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-06-09 18:49 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-06-09 18:58   ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2006-06-09 18:52 ` Kevin F. Quinn
     [not found]   ` <20060808085657.GA15665@nibiru.local>
2006-08-08 10:11     ` Roy Marples
2006-08-08 10:24       ` Brian Harring
2006-08-08 10:55       ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 11:10         ` Brian Harring
2006-08-08 14:46           ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 15:06             ` Thomas Cort
2006-08-08 17:46             ` Joshua Nichols
2006-08-08 11:48         ` Simon Stelling
2006-08-08 18:50     ` Colin Kingsley

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