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 thinking along the same lines. Now, how fine grained do you > want to take this?
Not *TOO* fine grained, as this would/might be too confusing. I don't think it might be a good idea to now introduce like 300 flags, so that each and every package can be dis-/enabled. > I can see that a ppp flag local to kde is good (people will either use > dialup often, or not need it at all). Yep. > artwork? some of those downloads are very big, so some user might want a > way to install only the minimal artwork and never the rest. Maybe. > I'd like a way to not build the various admin gui tools - hell will > freeze over long before I ever use anything other than vi to edit a > crontab. In this case, a "admin-tools" USE flag might be good for you. And it could be shared with Gnome as well. > And so on and so on. Or are you just looking for agreement Yep :) > 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? My focus is on the meta ebuilds. There I'd like to be able to control to a finer degree, what's to be installed and what's not to be installed. Alexander Skwar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
