Olivier Crête wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-05 at 14:20 -0400, Patrick McLean wrote: > > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > > > > 1) Create a single local USE flag (flashsupport or something) > > > that will just pull in this dependency. > > > > > > 2) Use the same set of USE flags as libflashsupport has, with any > > > of them adding libflashsupport to the dep list, since these are > > > all global flags and will most likely be enabled for both > > > netscape-flash and libflashsupport > > > > > > I'm personally thinking (1) is the better of the 2 options, but > > > I'd like to know if anyone has any other wondrous solutions to > > > this. > > > > Does/will anything else dep on flashsupport? If not, why not just > > add the USE flags to netscape-flash and install libflashsupport as > > part of the netscape-flash install instead of a separate package. > > If its a separate package that will be updated separately, then it > doesn't make sense to put it in the separate package and I support > option 1. Otherwise, if they'll always be together, then just put it > in the same package.
Yes, libflashsupport is distributed separately and is on a different release schedule than netscape-flash. I suppose I could also propose: 4) netscape-flash just RDEPENDS on libflashsupport all the time. It's certainly not a large library to be added on. -- Jim Ramsay Gentoo/Linux Developer (rox,gkrellm)
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