On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:26 am, Diego "Flameeyes" Petten� wrote:
> As I said is not a problem of bsd in this case. Just look at pam ebuild, is
> a mess! it builds a static glib to be able to build pam_console, there's
> conditional of all kinds...

this is so that we (1) dont have to force -fPIC onto libglib.a and (2) we dont 
have to move libglib.so into /lib

> Moving out pam_console (and the rest of optional pam modules, also) into
> different ebuilds will make user ables to install what they need without
> having a bloated ebuild with conditionals for everything.

eh, you're going to have 'bloat' regardless of using 1 ebuild or 10, it's just 
a matter of which kind of bloat you want :p ... and generally i'm against 
splitting packages
-mike

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