From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.105.134.102] (helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkYGW-0003YY-Rr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:13:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j5L2CW7B015985; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:12:32 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5L2AnY2010365 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:10:49 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DkYEE-0007Ng-84 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:11:06 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DkY8M-00067n-Ji for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:05:02 +0200 Received: from ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.66.193]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:05:02 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:05:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: splitting one source package into many binaries Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:10:57 -0700 Organization: Sometimes Message-ID: References: <564d96fb0506160950b9752bf@mail.gmail.com> <42B1B997.5070003@gentoo.org> <20050616132044.2b689bd3@edune.lan> <1119016612.13606.13.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <1119281987.13606.26.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-66-193.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7a3a5167-5986-4291-921e-a9c0186bf293 X-Archives-Hash: 8e08dda1fceb9bdb5805fcceb1cb27d9 Chris Gianelloni posted <1119281987.13606.26.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net>, excerpted below, on Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:39:47 -0400: > On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 05:17 -0700, Duncan wrote: >> >> I get the point, but if it's not there to be started, it cannot be >> started, thru some fat-fingering on the part of a confused admin trying to >> launch the client, or any other way. USE flags (not split >> packages, I'll absolutely agree there) are the Gentoo way to control that. > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12499 > > Personally, I am completely against it. It makes dependencies a > complete nightmare to work with and would add an immense amount of > complexity for the developers and also for users that aren't going to > need/use this system. > > You have the tools to remove the binaries already. Use them. I didn't realize it had been bugged to death. I guess others have said it before, and everybody's likely very tired of the rehash, so despite my opinions, I'll just shut up, now... =8^] -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list