-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 February 2004 13:54, Spider wrote: > begin quote > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 12:44:21 +0000 > > James Harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What do you think? > > > > I suggest verifying that you can manually compile licq without kde, > > and then posting a bug on bugzilla. Repeat as required until all the > > packages you use are useflag-enabled. > > I keep seing threads like this cropping up at a regular basis, both > here and on bugzilla. However, the small issue most people who file > those bugs overlook is reliability. > > Here's the point, we can easly remove the dependency on esd, and if > the code works, okay. However, then you have an untracked dependency > when esd -is- installed but set as USE="-esd" , as it will be needed, > but not listed as such. > > -that- is unreliable behaviour, and in many cases we chose to rather > make it a hard dependency and force it down peoples throats, than to > expend time and work on issues where things -work- but we perhaps not > locally optimal. > > So, Feel free to file any bugs you want about this, tcp-wrappers and > other such "bloated" issues. However: If you do not wrap for the > reverse case, your changes will be ignored.
I have sent a message to portage-dev to this respect suggesting dynamic runtime deps. Basically saying, if this package is available at compiletime it will be needed at runtime. This would probably be an option for portageng, but it would allow these things to be tracked. Paul - -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFALMtmbKx5DBjWFdsRAn8gAJ9RI1b1jsa7/yMOrMk+ad3HJgjp7ACeKxnn Pzw5fl3GZwup9VUf4YJILwA= =Cwrb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
