On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:23:58PM -0500, John Davis wrote:
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?
That's not going to happen. Not as long as I am maintaining SAMBA :-)
Separate ebuilds is not clean. Overloading USE flags is also way off base; they are not meant to designate subpackages.
Unless subpackages are supported by Portage in some official fashion, I'm not playing ball. That's really what the people are asking for.
So, design subpackages support. Then the ebuilds can be changed.
Donny
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