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 4.54) id 1FBAHK-0006Za-Su for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:36:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1KCaD10008715; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:36:13 GMT Received: from smtp.sz-online.de (smtp.sz-online.de [193.98.117.121]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1KCaCRh023238 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:36:12 GMT Received: (qmail 4016 invoked from network); 20 Feb 2006 12:30:33 -0000 Received: from smtp.sz-online.de (HELO mail.sz-online.de) (193.98.117.121) by smtp.sz-online.de with SMTP; 20 Feb 2006 12:30:33 -0000 Received: from 84.179.213.121 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dirk.schoenberger) by mail.sz-online.de with HTTP; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:30:33 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <59274.84.179.213.121.1140438633.squirrel@mail.sz-online.de> In-Reply-To: <0CF52397-66BD-4500-91E4-F23974FE705E@myrealbox.com> References: <20060219102142.GF7819@gentoo.org> <0CF52397-66BD-4500-91E4-F23974FE705E@myrealbox.com> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:30:33 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-osx] OSX only packages: where to store them? From: Dirk =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sch=F6nberger?= To: gentoo-osx@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-osx@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-osx@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Archives-Salt: ee35c6f5-d7d2-4205-b1cf-72e6f42049dc X-Archives-Hash: 8298b2ba45951ff1baa627d3b5d5cea8 >> >> Personally, I'd love to see a category (or multiple categories?) >> just for software intended exclusively for Mac OS X. Might be a bit >> more difficult to swing that by the rest of the developers, though... > > This implies there should also be a separate category for packages > that are suitable for Lunix only. In the ideal world, IMO, x11-libs/ > qt should build on both platforms, behaving correctly whether it is > on MacOS or Linux; it is inelegant to require users on different > platforms to emerge different packages to get the same thing > (although for development reasons it might be reasonable to have an > x11-libs/qt-meta package that pulls in either linux-libs/qt or macos- > libs-qt as required). > The problem is that there exist a package x11-libs/qt, which already builds fine on MacOS (with installed X libs), and which is generic, and a package (apple-libs?)/qt, which uses Qt-Mac and native Aqua. As long as no Aqua exists on Linux, this is Apple only. Regards Dirk -- gentoo-osx@gentoo.org mailing list