Hi all,
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:50:18AM +0000, Mike Williams wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 01:00, Marius Mauch wrote: > > > > It is not natural to stop at "client" and "server" flags either. > > > What about "dev" for .a and .h things? This is really going down > > > the slipperly slope in my opinion. > > > > Maybe it's not natural to stop there (btw, I'm only for a "server" flag, > > not for a "client" flag), but it's reasonable. To make the "dev" stuff > > optional doesn't make much sense for Gentoo as dependencies usually need > > them, but usually there aren't dependencies on the server part of > > something. > > As just "another technical user" I feel the client/server flags would a killer > feature. > I have several Gentoo desktops, some mildly slow, and a number of servers. On > all of the desktops I was mysql support to talk to my servers. It has always > annoyed me that I have to install the server too, it's such a pointless waste > of time and space. > > If the client is always built, and the server too with the default flags > no-one would know the difference until they went and turned server support > off. I agree with this. If the "server" flag is in the defaults anyway, it will not affect anything unless server support is turned off. Someone voiced a concern about someone coming up with a "dev" flag. That isn't really a possible option in gentoo because everything is compiled anyway. We also have one other use flag that I can think of that controls installation options instead of compile time options -- it is the doc use flag. William -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
