On 07/01/2012 02:52 PM, Zac Medico wrote: > On 07/01/2012 02:39 PM, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> Matt Turner schrieb: >>>> I suppose that's just for ease of implementation? Not having to >>>> special-case packages that don't install binaries. >>> >>> I dont follow. Did you think about only having additional ABI flags for >>> certain cases? >> >> Right. It seems to me that not having the ABI flags for packages like >> x11-proto/* would make more sense, but may be more work to implement. > > It seems like this could easily be controlled by setting a PROPERTIES or > RESTRICT value in the ebuild. Also, it might be useful to give the > ebuild similar control over the abiwrapper flag via PROPERTIES or RESTRICT.
On irc, I asked Tommy about the abiwrapper thing, and he suggested to set IUSE="+abiwrapper" for packages containing programs like qmake which are known to produce ABI specific output. -- Thanks, Zac
