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

[Steve Long <slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk>]

Jim Ramsay wrote:
>> > This meets the following goals:
>> > 1) It makes it easy for "regular" users to get netscape-flash with
>> > any additions required by any global USE flags in exactly one step:
>> >  - emerge netscape-flash
>> So, in netscape-flash:
>> RDEPEND="
>>     ssl? ( foo/libflashsupport )
>>     pulseaudio? ( foo/libflashsupport )
>>     esd? ( foo/libflashsupport )
>>     oss? ( foo/libflashsupport )
>> "
>> and IUSE="ssl pulseaudio esd oss gnutls" in libflashsupport (which, as
>> already said, has it's own ebuild)?
> 
> Yes, I considered this, it is option (2) in the original post in this
> thread. However, I do not believe this is the best solution.  Consider
> the case where:
>  - A user has 'ssl' disabled globally
>  - A user sees that netscape-flash now has 'ssl' support, so he/she
> enables 'ssl' just for the netscape-flash ebuild.
>  - The ebuild would then install libflashsupport, but do so without
> actually adding ssl support, which would be quite frustrating to the
> user, and probably generate unnedded bug traffic.
> 
Well then the ebuild for libflashsupport should pull in ssl iff the flag is
set; other packages do similar stuff. A usr who adds ssl to package.use
will not be surprised to see the ssl package being pulled in, so no bad
experience for the usr, and hopefully less bug reports.

I really *don't* like the option of a crippled install. It's
counter-intuitive and is asking for trouble imo.

Thanks for adding shiny stuff to flash :)


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