On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 07:02:00AM +0000, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Wednesday 16 February 2005 01:18, Drake Wyrm wrote: > > There will likely be some difficulty in separating the development files > > from the runtime files. > > I doubt it. Red Hat et al have been doing this for many years now. > > The main difficulties are: > > a) Getting supported added to Portage > b) Upgrading all the affected ebuilds in the tree > > i.e. inertia. Inertia is one thing... clarification of B is needed prior. What mods are needed? In my previous posting I stated how it was possible to do it without hacking up the ebuilds. That approach, last time subpackaging reared it's head, is imo the best approach. The tree doesn't have to be made subpackage aware, so modifications are minimal, just modifying portage.
The previous approach solar/iggy were using which I liked was find based- worked pretty well for creation of the subpkgs. Granted, it won't work perfectly (find is a good start, but there is more required), so addition of a few vars that portage would use for subpkg generation would be needed. Note those likely would be special cases though. ~Brian -- [email protected] mailing list
