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

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-m

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. > > --(

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 b

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