2007/11/24, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Nov 24, 2007 2:29 AM, Giambattista Bloisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regarding meta-recipes I a have a few questions for you: > > - Is there any way to mark a recipe as part of a meta-recipe? > > You can use the directive part_of=Package in the recipe. However, for > the time being, that doesn't do anything other than telling RecipeLint > not to warn when a Dependencies file is not found. > > > - What's about making clear whether a recipe is supposed to be compiled > > alone or as part of a meta-recipe ? For example, has sense to compile a > > Xorg sub-recipe? > > We could spawn a confirmation question whenever a recipe containing > 'part_of' is about to be compiled manually, yes. Maybe that can even > make things easier when someone doesn't know "where to start from" > when a bunch of recipes are seen around the same program (cc:'ing > gobo-devel so that others can comment on this; this sounds reasonable > to me). > > It's just important to keep that as an option, as there are many users > who are used to update just small components of bigger packages (eg: > Jonas and Xorg sub-recipes :-)) > I'm not sure what you mean, but I feel like using "part_of" for "inserting" applications into their containing meta recipes is useful. Instead of manually using '--app-name' and '--version-number' those would be implied (with user confirmation).
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