From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from canuck.com (the-gimp.canuck.com [216.248.224.12]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B8822015DCA for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:31:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from the-gimp (the-gimp [216.248.224.12]) by canuck.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA7885548 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:25:02 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 07:25:02 -0700 From: Dave Lee X-Sender: davel@the-gimp To: Gentoo-dev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Sys-Cleanup after build complete In-Reply-To: <1014004250.5927.6.camel@uranus.u235.eyep.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 69cdf823-0487-4f5c-9a2b-633247150c65 X-Archives-Hash: 593b735c685e92c2073d1a384e6c6a26 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