Donny Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Unless subpackages are supported by Portage in some official
> fashion, I'm not playing ball. That's really what the people are
> asking for.
subpackages would be both neat and practical. one thing we have to
think about though, are dependencies. certain ebuilds might depend
on just a part of an ebuild. some applications might require a
binary called "ssh" to be available, others need the whole nine
yards.
but, if you depend on 'openssh+client'[1], which is a subpackage of
openssh, having 'openssh' installed will do.
also, portage will have to support virtual subpackages. ;-)
> So, design subpackages support. Then the ebuilds can be changed.
totally agreed. USE-flags have noting to do with client /
server-support.
[1] I'm not sure how we'd like to denote subpackages, '-' and '_'
are sort of taken.
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Terje
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