[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree with Alexander about this. Meta (not only the kde ones) packages should definitely have USE flags. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106 Let's see how fast Jakub is to close that bug... In that bug, I'm only talking about KDE

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yep. You get kde-meta or individual kde packages or you get your own ebuild that depends on a number of KDE packages. The Gentoo developers do quite a bit of work just to give us

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: I mean, what's the advantage of the kde*-meta packages over the kde package, when the kde*-meta require just as much junk, as the kde package does? Hm, really, what's the use of the kde*-meta package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

2007-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Perhaps the best route (maybe a good feature request?) is to put USE flags in the -meta ebuilds. That's what I'd like to get as a result of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106 I see we're thinking along the same lines. Now, how fine

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Perhaps the best route (maybe a good feature request?) is to put USE flags in the -meta ebuilds. That's what I'd like to get as a result of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182106 I see we're

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: and a mechanism to put use flags into split ebuilds and let the devs decide which ones are worth persuing? With split ebuilds you mean for example the ebuild for kppp? Or are you talking about the kde*-meta ebuilds? Sorry for not being

[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Skwar
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: Sorry for not being clearer. I meant USE flags in the -meta ebuilds, to disable undesired apps like kppp. Sort of like: DEPEND= kde-base/this-app !nokppp? ( kde-base/kppp ) kde-base/that-app

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ppp flag is already known to portage. --($:~/tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': Suppose you've got the following use case: Install all of KDE, but leave out PPP stuff. How would you solve that? Intall all the kde*-meta packages except kde-meta (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6/16/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': Suppose you've got the following use case: Install all of KDE, but leave out PPP stuff. How would you solve