On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 13:50 -0300, Rafael Espíndola wrote: > I am using Gentoo to build some small systems. While things like the > minimal useflag is a joy, the monolithic nature of most gentoo > packages is a headache. It depends on your point of view. Having to install 142 -devel packages just to be able to compile $foo is quite frustrating - I prefer the Gentoo way.
> Kde has been spit and libstdc++ can be installed without gcc but there > are many other packages that don't have this feature. For example, > installing qt also installs qt designer. I don't know if there is a demand for this, but if you really need to shrink stuff, create your own ebuild overlay with "fixed" ebuilds ... > Has someone worked on changing ebuild so that it could create many > binary packages from one source? Something similar to debian's > dpkg-buildpackage. For example, it would be wonderful to be able to do > > ebuild qt-something.ebuild split-package I haven't heard of anyone trying this, and as far as I can remember it has usually been shot down as a bad idea. > and have in /usr/portage/packages a package for qt-designer and a > package for the rest of the library. > > Is this a bad idea or simply not the Gentoo way? Well ... it gets you all kinds of problems because if you split packages (e.g. X --> X + X-headers) and you want to compile something you'll pull in the second package anyway. So for most packages I think it's not really useful. wkr, Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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