twp;145112 Wrote: 
> The dependencies in the slimserver ebuild are the minimum required: perl
> and its modules, mysql, media-sound/alac_decoder, media-libs/flac,
> media-sound/musepack-tools, and media-sound/sox, all of which are
> required by slimserver.

I don't think that's quite true - they're required if you use those
formats, yes, but not otherwise. Apart from Perl, I don't believe any
of those dependencies are mandatory if you have an architecture
supported by the default-packaged mysqld (I've not checked the actual
ebuild, just the list in the above quote, however). There would be the
few Perl packages that "build-perl-modules.pl" builds, though.

I think there are USE flags for much of those formats (and mysql) that
should be used to control what dependencies the package would have
(controlled through the IUSE mechanism of the ebuild, I believe).

I'm not criticising the ebuild, but just trying to make suggestions to
make it more applicable to more people. I've often wished there were a
SS ebuild in Portage, but not been bothered to do anything about it
myself.

Stuart


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