Re: [gentoo-dev] Sys-Cleanup after build complete

[Dave Lee <davel@canuck.com>]

Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote:
> Your problem can be solved with sub-packaging. i.e. producing
> more then one package from the same ebuild. like glibc and glibc-devel.
> This feature is considered for the next generation of portage (after 1.0
> is out).

Is there anybody else out there other than me who doesnt like this?
my experience is with rpm based systems and I hate the proliferation of
-devel packages and other subpackages. thats one thing I really like about 
portage is that I dont have to deal with that, I install a package and it
comes with everything.  I know there are advantages to having -devel and
other subpackages like the rpm systems use, such as finer grained control
of what is and isnt installed, but as a user and administrator I hate
having extra packages installed as though they are different from the
package itself.  most software compiled from source will install the devel
files, and I think portage should too.  maybe a solution is to have a
USE_DEVEL that is used similar to USE, and can be default set to "*" for
everything.  another possibility is to have a --option to emerge so that
emereg doesnt install devel files.  I am new to gentoo so forgive me if
these ideas suck and I will just shutup in that case. 

thanks,
Dave