Use INSTALL_MASK to keep /usr/bin/mysqld or whatever from getting installed. We
aren't generally in the habit of splitting packages into a bunch of different
ebuilds. There are exceptions, but
--Iggy
Christian Parpart wrote:
Hi all,
well, regarding the request on bug 88490 [1] (and my
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:28 am, Christian Parpart wrote:
Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this?
general policy is to not split packages (and i agree with this ...)
bind and bind-tools is split ;) Why is it so bad to split packages? (I'm
just
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:13:33 -0500 Lance Albertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| bind and bind-tools is split ;) Why is it so bad to split packages?
| (I'm just curious) Seems a bit odd that we can't have a library only,
| client only, etc package like the other distros. Of course, I
| understand
Luca Barbato wrote:
Christian Parpart wrote:
Using the minimal useflag for this - IMHO - is a misuse of the idea of
minimal semantically - as I do understand minimal in a way like don't
overbloat me with patches and other feature additions-alike.
minimal is about keeping the package
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 10:17 -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
2) ebuild maintenance will be a nightmare- every new version will
require again walking the source to see if the lines you've drawn for
dividing the source are still proper.
This is another good point. I have two split packages
Lance Albertson wrote:
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:28 am, Christian Parpart wrote:
Do we have a general accepted gentoo policy for this?
general policy is to not split packages (and i agree with this ...)
bind and bind-tools is split ;) Why is it
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:37:05AM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Other distributions are also binary-only, so there's no real comparison
here. While I think having client and server type USE-flags is
really a bad idea, I don't see a problem with providing a library.
I 100% disagree with
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:56:06 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Best solution in my opinon? Two use flags address this, client, and
| server. Regardless of the setting of the two, you get the library;
| from there, you just set client and server as defaulting to on, and
| packages
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:24:03PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:56:06 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| Best solution in my opinon? Two use flags address this, client, and
| server. Regardless of the setting of the two, you get the library;
| from
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:06:35AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:13:56 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
| You're a bit vague in the 'die in pkg_setup' bit; if you're
| referencing doing the changes now, and sticking a die in, I already
| explicitly stated
On Thursday 18 August 2005 19:01, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
maillog: 18/08/2005-16:28:40(+0200): Christian Parpart types
Using the minimal useflag for this - IMHO - is a misuse of the idea of
minimal semantically - as I do understand minimal in a way like don't
overbloat me with patches and
On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:44, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 10:17 -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
2) ebuild maintenance will be a nightmare- every new version will
require again walking the source to see if the lines you've drawn for
dividing the source are still
On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:01, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
vanilla - Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour
For features, I would expect individual USE flags-- what if I want one patch,
but not another?
For changing mere defaults, a gentoo USE flag seems like it would make
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:30:42AM +0200, Christian Parpart wrote:
On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:44, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 10:17 -0500, Brian Harring wrote:
2) ebuild maintenance will be a nightmare- every new version will
require again walking the source to see
maillog: 19/08/2005-02:59:46(+): Luke-Jr types
On Thursday 18 August 2005 17:01, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
vanilla - Do not add extra patches which change default behaviour
For features, I would expect individual USE flags-- what if I want one patch,
but not another?
I agree.
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