From: Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 09:54:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D2FD2A.6080505@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local>
Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> For example: mplayer
> It has it's gui-less player and an gtk-based frontend in one package.
> We should split this into two packages: mplayer and gmplayer.
> The chances to get this done in the upstream *before* some major
> distro like gentoo does the split by its own are quite low.
Not quite true. In reality, they're just the same. mplayer simply checks whether
it was called as mplayer or gmplayer. So you not only have two programs in one
package, but even in one binary. Changing this behaviour has nothing to do with
packaging and is really upstream's responsibility, IMHO.
--
Kind Regards,
Simon Stelling
Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-03 11:31 [gentoo-dev] Proposal for advanced useflag-syntax Noack, Sebastian
[not found] ` <20060803153407.GA19696@nibiru.local>
2006-08-03 18:38 ` Luca Barbato
[not found] ` <20060807131642.GF25236@nibiru.local>
2006-08-07 13:40 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-08-07 14:18 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-07 10:58 ` Alec Warner
2006-08-07 16:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-08-07 21:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Paul de Vrieze
2006-08-08 10:30 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 10:39 ` Simon Stelling
2006-08-08 10:58 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 10:57 ` Jakub Moc
2006-08-04 7:54 ` Simon Stelling [this message]
2006-08-04 9:01 ` Brian Harring
2006-08-07 13:48 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-07 14:08 ` Stephen P. Becker
2006-08-08 1:44 ` W.Kenworthy
2006-08-08 2:14 ` Mike Frysinger
2006-08-08 10:34 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 2:50 ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-08 10:40 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 12:37 ` Jan Kundrat
2006-08-08 14:50 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 15:06 ` Lance Albertson
2006-08-08 20:17 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 20:37 ` Lance Albertson
2006-08-08 20:46 ` Jan Kundrát
2006-08-08 21:22 ` Curtis Napier
2006-08-08 15:12 ` Thomas Cort
2006-08-08 20:22 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-08 21:02 ` Richard Fish
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-04 6:21 AW: " Noack, Sebastian
2006-08-07 13:26 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-07 14:53 ` Thomas Cort
2006-08-07 18:48 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-08-07 20:09 ` Marius Mauch
2006-08-07 21:14 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-08-07 15:04 AW: " Noack, Sebastian
2006-08-07 20:18 ` Enrico Weigelt
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