From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15498 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Nov 2003 01:24:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31428 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2003 01:24:47 -0000 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20031104002017.71d91fc0.genone@gentoo.org> <20031104181034.GB9610@jogger-egg.com> <3FA7EEBE.7040507@gentoo.org> <20031104183748.GA1055@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20031104185544.GA14900@breccia.escarpment> From: Terje Kvernes Organization: do you Gentoo? X-URL: http://terje.kvernes.no/ Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 02:24:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20031104185544.GA14900@breccia.escarpment> (Donny Davies's message of "Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:55:44 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: Terje Kvernes X-MailScanner-Information: This message has been scanned for viruses/spam. Contact postmaster@uio.no if you have questions about this scanning. X-UiO-MailScanner: No virus found Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [IMPORTANT] server/client USE flags X-Archives-Salt: 6acb5aa9-ceaa-4e35-9795-41fb875f6215 X-Archives-Hash: adbf51f72183a4a8afbdcfe5de88d77e Donny Davies 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list