Jim Ramsay wrote: > I suppose the alternative would be to split the ebuild into 'gkrellm' > and 'gkrellmd' ebuilds, which would indeed remove the need for the > 'built_with_use' check. How is this normally done for other packages > that have, for example, both a client and server part? > Well mysql uses the minimal flag to only build client part. There has been some discussion about this, as the minimal flag is actually for: minimal - Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features) and this is mis-use of the flag. When it was first discussed iirc it was only supposed to be a temporary thing. There has seemed to be support from devs and users for client and server flags. The following all use the server flag locally: dev-ruby/rubygems, dev-util/cvs, games-strategy/wesnoth, net-misc/tightvnc net-misc/vnc, sci-astronomy/setiathome, sci-mathematics/yacas, sci-misc/boinc, sys-cluster/torque Hmm, I didn't know that cvs needed the server flag :D As a user I think the flags make sense as global options; although only net-misc/bird uses client atm, the distinction would make sense for eg mySQL, LDAP, samba and a whole host of pkgs.
I don't know how it would work technically, how difficult it would be, or indeed if anyone is prepared to do the work, besides maybe some of the users. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
