From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JrphR-0007Af-RY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 07:28:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3A89E0857; Fri, 2 May 2008 07:28:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (aa013msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1ECE0857 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 07:28:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (27.241.66.209) by aa013msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.8) id 4816F476006D7EDC for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 2 May 2008 09:28:54 +0200 Message-ID: <481AC22E.7020908@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 09:26:38 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: language bindings as separate packages References: <20080501150930.GA25855@nibiru.local> In-Reply-To: <20080501150930.GA25855@nibiru.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6fb61d09-478e-40a7-bb26-10b50a94c2ee X-Archives-Hash: 562501043d1de8115208125850ccab7c Enrico Weigelt wrote: > My suggestion: make those language bindings being separate > packages. So, other packages can depend on them directly, > instead of the current, build-breaking hack. > > I'm not advocating gentoo should do this step alone, but > instead join in the upstream and solve it there. The issue is upstream related, we can workaround it using a way to express that requirement (usedeps, checks in pkg_setup, whatever), obviously trying to cooperate with upstream in order to get the optional bindings build w/out the main program would make our life simpler and probably their as well. Partial builds are quite a problem since they are anything but reliable. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list