Hi folks,
while building yum, I again ran into trouble because one dependency has to be rebuilt with an specific useflag first (in this case it was libxml2 + python useflag). Actually, there are *lots* of these cases and (AFAIK) portage has no way for properly handling this - it's up to the individual ebuilds to check for those situations and artifically breaking the build. Of coure, breaking builds are ugly. My suggestion: make those language bindings being separate packages. So, other packages can depend on them directly, instead of the current, build-breaking hack. I'm not advocating gentoo should do this step alone, but instead join in the upstream and solve it there. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
