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Bob Miller wrote: | Marius Mauch wrote: | | |>So my idea (as well as others) is to add a new "server" USE flag that |>controls wether the server part of a package is build. | | | Two objections. | | 1. USE flags are global for the host. "Serverness" is per-service, | not per-host. The host that is an apache server may be a mysql | client. | | 2. Overridden USE flags get blown away by updates. A given package | is installed once, then upgraded numerous times over the life | of a system. It shouldn't need manual intervention every time. | | I think Jason's idea, having package-local USE flags like | samba-server, ntp-client, etc. might make better sense. | | The portage gods could generalize this so that USE flags have scope | and you could define something like USE="-server server:net-fs/samba" | for a desktop with shared filesystems. (actual syntax TBD) | That would be package-specific and persistent. | To avoid over-complication, why don't we just separate the client and server ebuilds completely? (eg, samba-server, samba-client, etc)? I think woodchip pounced all over this one, but why avoid the most simple and elegant solution?
Cheers, //zhen - -- John Davis Gentoo Linux Developer <http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen>
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