On Fri, 2007-11-05 at 12:12 -0600, Jim Ramsay wrote: > Josh Saddler wrote: > > Jim Ramsay wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > That is a terrible idea. Don't make it "depend" on something that it > > clearly does *not* depend on. Flash works just fine without the > > optional add-ons, and those are *definitely* optional. I've never > > needed libflashsupport and would prefer not seeing useless cruft > > attached to a perfectly working Flash installation. > > Point taken - If you don't want the extra features you don't want > libflashsupport at all. > > I could make it so that if all of the USE flags for libflashsupport are > turned off it doesn't actually install the library at all, just gets > added to the list of installed packages. > > > If you're going to add it to USE, then make sure it's *not* on by > > default, thanks. > > This way it will adhere to your current set of global USE flags. If you > have pulseaudio, esd, oss, ssl, or gnutls on globally, it will install > libflashsupport with the appropriate hooks in it. If they are all > off (either globally or specifically for libflashsupport) you will > just get the same old netscape-flash with no add-ons. > > Is this a worthy compromise?
This seems even worse.. I think either having one local use flag in netscape-flash is probably the best solution.. The second best is to have all of the use flags and RDEPEND on flash-support if any is enabled. -- Olivier Crête [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer
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