Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6/16/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': > Suppose you've got the following "use case": Install all of >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': > Suppose you've got the following "use case": Install all of > KDE, but leave out PPP stuff. > > How would you solve that? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Sorry for not being clearer. I meant USE flags in the -meta ebuilds, to > disable undesired apps like kppp. Sort of like: > > DEPEND=" > kde-base/this-app > !nokppp? ( kde-base/kppp ) > kde-base/tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > and a > > mechanism to put use flags into split ebuilds and let the devs > > decide which ones are worth persuing? > > With "split ebuilds" you mean for example the ebuild for kppp? Or > are you talking about the kde*-meta ebuilds? Sorry for not b

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> > 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 >

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

2007-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > 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 I see we're thinking along the same lines. Now, how

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

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 packa

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yep. You get kde-meta or individual kde packages or you get your own > ebuild that depends on a number of KDE packages. The Gentoo developers do > quite a bit of work just to give us

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I completely agree with Alexander about this. Meta (not only the kde ones) > packages should definitely have USE flags. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106 Let's see how fast Jakub is to close that bug... In that bug, I'm only talking about