From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hmnwd-0004hJ-Gv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:31:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4C9U9nl011591; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:30:09 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4C9SH0v009308 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:28:17 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0D7E64E44 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:28:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.582 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.582 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.671, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=1.253] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iE+GluT1cFmC for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:28:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C62F64B95 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 09:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HmntR-000669-VM for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 12 May 2007 11:28:01 +0200 Received: from 82.153.142.128 ([82.153.142.128]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 11:28:01 +0200 Received: from slong by 82.153.142.128 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 11:28:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Steve Long Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Optional Package Dependencies for netscape-flash -> libflashsupport Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 10:25:15 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20070510110018.67dd40a0@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> <46436275.8050809@gentoo.org> <1178824282.8007.18.camel@localhost> <20070511111555.5f26e596@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> <4644AF3F.7030503@gentoo.org> <20070511121210.7a75dfa2@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> <1178908077.8007.21.camel@localhost> <20070511131951.362744ed@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> <4644C5BF.1080704@digital-trauma.de> <20070511135253.19192cf2@sed-192.sedsystems.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.153.142.128 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 17b998ca-aa4b-48ad-aceb-50bca68a5e61 X-Archives-Hash: fa83d4f9310acb3bc77b0e65728aa9d7 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 :) -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list