Re: [gentoo-dev] What to do :?

[Bob Phan <bob@evil-core.com>]

On 20 Feb 2002, Gila wrote:

> hey guys....
> 
> i am making a ebuild for a file share program that works fine imho.. but
> i got a question:
> 
> The main program is console based but a GUI is optional. the problem is
> that i want to make a ebuild that compiles the GUI is the gtk use flag
> is set. How do i make it so that IF use GTK it downloads configure make
> make install the GUI in one ebuild ?
 
You probably want to make two packages, Foo-console and Foo-gui.  Foo-gui
should depend on Foo-console, therefor if you choose to install Foo-gui
it will install Foo-console automatically.  This is the way the xine
packages work (which you should probably take a look at).  Xine-ui depends
on xine-lib, so when you emerge xine-ui, you get a fully functional gui
xine, but if you emerge xine-lib, you end up with just the libraries
needed for another xine frontend.

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