[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:

> On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> I mean, what's the advantage of the kde*-meta packages over the kde
>> package, when the kde*-meta require just as much "junk", as the
>> kde package does? Hm, really, what's the use of the kde*-meta package
>> anyway?
> 
> The -meta packages are a good idea.

Absolutely!

> With the old style kde or kdepim etc 
> packages, you got everything whether you liked it or not. 

Well, that's what you get now as well... Eg. I don't want kppp,
but I get anyway, whether I like it or not. At least sort of.

> Putting a USE 
> flag on such an ebuild to build all of kdepim except kppp would be ...
> tricky at best.

True.

> The -meta packages split everything in kde up on an app level, but there
> is the disadvantage that you now have 300 ebuilds to choose from and
> get to list *all* the ones you want.

Exactly.

> Perhaps the best route (maybe a good feature request?) is to put USE
> flags in the -meta ebuilds. 

That's what I'd like to get as a result of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106

> Then you get the full configurability of 
> what -meta gives, plus an easy way to omit stuff without having to list
>>100 desired packages

Exactly.

Best regards,
Alexander Skwar

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