Hello fellow GoboLinux users/developers! This is the first time I write to this list, some of you've seen me on irc.
First of all, use-flags is a really nice feature which hopefully will become more and more integrated into the system. I've identified an issue, however. Perhaps I want to compile this great package X, which depends on library Y. The problem is that X will only compile/link properly if library Y was built with a specific use-flag. A real-life example is centerim, a ncurses icq/msn/yahoo/...--client. It needs libcurl, but in addition libcurl must've been built with ssl-support. "Luckily", the configure-phase will fail when it detects that there's no ssl-support in libcurl, but this may not always be true for other programs. Sometimes, the program would compile but with reduced functionality (configure-phase won't really stop). It'd be good with a "was_this_other_package_Y_built_with_use_flag_xxx" directive in recipes, and then take some action, for instance, print a more userfriendly message, explaining to the user what to do. I don't think we'd like to recompile other packages with additional use-flags automatically, though it could be done to resolve such problems. Anyway, there may be other uses for such a directive that takes some action depending on another package's useflags. Best Regards /David Karell -- Be Yourself @ mail.com! Choose From 200+ Email Addresses Get a Free Account at www.mail.com
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