Re: [gentoo-dev] client/server consistency: USE flags / split packages

[Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>]

Le 4 nov. 2009 à 20:25, Peter Volkov a écrit :

> В Срд, 04/11/2009 в 17:34 +0100, Tiziano Müller пишет:
>> Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2009, 18:44 +0300 schrieb Peter Volkov:
>>> So are there any good reasons to split packages?
>>
>> In environments with a staging server and binary packages, yes.

in case where different libs are needed in the stack but in ways that  
makes it do circular deps if you use an unsplitted package (think  
gvfs, libsoup, libproxy libsoup, and stuff like that).

I think it's generally a good idea to split when the following  
conditions are met:
  * maintainer/herd has enough time to maintain the split (some splits  
can be time consuming)
  * upstream behaves nicely in the split case (splitting stuff on our  
own is shooting ourselves in the feet usually as is upstream not  
wanting to hear about it)
  * split benefits the user has it allows more flexibility (don't tell  
me about configure times, we are gentoo and flexibility most often  
wins over buildtime or we'd be somewhere else imho)

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Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@gentoo.org>
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