From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B43E1386FA for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89525E0ABF; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:02:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f175.google.com (mail-ea0-f175.google.com [209.85.215.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 40F6DE0A8B; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f175.google.com with SMTP id l15so1382225eak.6 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:02:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FwtOmqxOuO8BBV7Z0dtZNvYtxbZrc5KXOyUen3lBURI=; b=GNMajcr+h/4qmGMQnAaKIi62wgo7SoMLLgu7Q8CUE3EaU30AjMgeZfKo29UYNYjBsC TTI/rlE8Me/9+pVFLTPOJ35HEMNoyPfe/VWKi9LBasJiws/QJ/0fDI40EIlHOr1PsRVI odDQ1VNoDWC1gn/1EFeqX5/hBjLwjk/8sUvOt1qcL6IIjEJRswIU1U7ZGrSASunYxuLE t9cP4Xj0dK0MMrddzB6zIuDs5nbu6cCXom54oa2Mr3NGA3ctdLhl8RgRjhly+v1t7ZQ9 n4RJx4e7JpLTsggAxRggcbelTFZjCPTGUkvR+klJMvHg4l+KNa8tX93GFWT9MLtLtdqD GCmg== X-Received: by 10.14.246.11 with SMTP id p11mr178019eer.9.1383256936889; Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:02:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from egeo.atlantide.net (ppp-168-31.20-151.libero.it. [151.20.31.168]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a6sm14536101eei.10.2013.10.31.15.02.15 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:02:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 23:02:12 +0100 From: Alessandro DE LAURENZIS To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] vim and gvim package split Message-ID: <20131031230212.1ea303a9@egeo.atlantide.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c4d232f3-bb3d-4627-b498-d6fff6fce2a7 X-Archives-Hash: 80ec53e2d0d85651fd80d906f96d15a5 I guess this is an already debated topic, but I only found this very old thread on the subject: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/4328 which contains the original communication of the ebuild split and some discussions and observations that probably are no more applicable. I'm absolutely convinced that one of the gentoo strengths is the USE variable handling compile time options, so I do not see any points to split packages when not absolutely needed. In case of vim-core/vim/gvim (and vim-qt?), I cannot understand the reason... Are still there advantages in doing so? Thanks for your time -- Alessandro DE LAURENZIS [mailto:just22.adl@gmail.com] LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/in/delaurenzis