Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastriting dev-libs/libffi (replaced by USE libffi in gcc itself)

["Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>]

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Albert Zeyer kirjoitti:
> On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:35 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote:
>> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>
>>> On 14:52 Thu 05 Jun     , Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>>> # Samuli Suominen <drac@gentoo.org> (05 Jun 2008)
>>>> # Masked for removal in ~30 days by treecleaners.
>>>> # Replaced by USE libffi in sys-devel/gcc. Bug 163724.
>>>> dev-libs/libffi
>>>> dev-lang/squeak
>>>> x11-libs/gtk-server
>>> The latest version of g-wrap (1.9.11) requires the external libffi
>>> released a month or two ago, because it looks for the pkgconfig file
>>> installed by that and not gcc:
>>>
>>>     - libffi is no longer distributed with g-wrap, as it is available
>>>       as a stand-alone package now (instead of being burried in the
>>>       GCC sources).
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>> I'd vote for an external libffi as well since python currently has to use
>> it's bundled version of it (statically linking against it).
>> Using libffi provided by gcc (and linking dynamically) is no option yet
>> since portage doesn't protect the user from destroying his system by
>> re-emerging gcc without gcj or libffi USE flags (rev-dep check and
>> USE-based deps would be needed).
> 
> Isn't it always preferable to separate packages and break them down into
> peaces (in this case have an external libffi) instead of having big
> packages with lots of stuff (in this case GCC) ?
> 

The proper solution is use deps.

Regards,
Petteri


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