[gentoo-dev] Re: Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

Jim Ramsay wrote:

> This libflashsupport-1.2 will have the following use flags:
> 
>   pulseaudio oss esd ssl gnutls
> 
> Now, I was thinking that it would be much easier for users if
> the netscape-flash ebuild automatically pulled this in, and was
> wondering the best way to do this.  I have 2 ideas:
> 
> 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) that will
> just pull in this dependency.
> 
> 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with any of
> them adding libflashsupport to the dep list, since these are all global
> flags and will most likely be enabled for both netscape-flash and
> libflashsupport
> 
> I'm personally thinking (1) is the better of the 2 options, but I'd
> like to know if anyone has any other wondrous solutions to this.

net-www/netscape-flash-9.0.31.0  USE="libflashsupport -debug"
media-lib/libflashsupport-1.2  USE="esd gnutls oss pulseaudio ssl"

is the right way to do it.

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