On Thursday 01 March 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging kde-meta': > On Thursday 01 March 2007 22:54:43 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Your problem is that you are trying to mix them. That is difficult or > > impossible and is AFAIK not supported. > > Quoting [1]: "Split and monolithic ebuilds can be mixed freely. The only > restriction is that a monolithic ebuild can't be installed at the same > time as a split ebuild deriving from it. There are blocking dependencies > in the ebuilds that enforce this, so you can do anything emerge allows > you to do."
Sweet. I didn't know the Gentoo devs were that cool. The restriction is only logical. > I'm in favour of removing the monolithic > ebuilds too though. They seem to cause more confusion than they are > worth. :) Agreed. It's always possible for ebuild developers to depend on the -meta package until they can determine what individual libraries/apps/etc. they need from it. Unfortunately, until we get a good confcache-style program, emerging the -meta ebuild does take a bit longer than emerging the monolithic version. (Yes, I konw, this time is saved later on when you don't have to compile everything again for a later release.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW!
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