Re: [gentoo-dev] [IMPORTANT] server/client USE flags

[Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>]

Donny Davies <woodchip@gentoo.org> writes:

  [ ... ]

> Unless subpackages are supported by Portage in some official
> fashion, I'm not playing ball.  That's really what the people are
> asking for.

  subpackages would be both neat and practical.  one thing we have to
  think about though, are dependencies.  certain ebuilds might depend
  on just a part of an ebuild.  some applications might require a
  binary called "ssh" to be available, others need the whole nine
  yards.  

  but, if you depend on 'openssh+client'[1], which is a subpackage of
  openssh, having 'openssh' installed will do.

  also, portage will have to support virtual subpackages.  ;-) 
 
> So, design subpackages support.  Then the ebuilds can be changed.

  totally agreed.  USE-flags have noting to do with client /
  server-support.


  [1] I'm not sure how we'd like to denote subpackages, '-' and '_'
      are sort of taken.

-- 
Terje

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