On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:38:10PM -0800, Ryan Tandy wrote: > >I can't find the bug right now, but this did pop up where the client was > >a GUI app, and they wanted to get away from needing all the dependencies > >it pulled in that way. > Would controlling building of the client via a flag such as 'X' or 'gtk' > be inappropriate in that scenario? If X or gtk were relevant to the client, then yes. Better be ready for USE flag for every GUI toolkit then (yuck).
I predict that we would then see people complaining they need a hundred and one USE flags to reliably turn off the clients, or that they need to actually read the ebuild to figure out exactly how to turn the client off. -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG FP : 11AC BA4F 4778 E3F6 E4ED F38E B27B 944E 3488 4E85
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