On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 01:14 -0600, Brian Harring wrote: > 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 other question is also: what should be done when the user start to merge something non-binary? Should it then merge all needed -devel bin packages not merged? Should it just die? And best of all - should we support the split bin packages officially? If so our grp stuff will need to be up to date all the time. Anyhow, just some more random thoughts. -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa
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