On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 19:23:37 -0400 Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Hrmmmmm. Is this going to be sanely doable by your average dev? How | > long a dep string would we be having in typical cases? How about in | > bad cases? | > | The more formal the depstring, the quicker the packages build ( | using | only needed packages instead of lumping them in one group ). This is | essentially what the DEPEND should be, just what the packages needs to | compile and run. This especially benefits embedded targets who need a | bare-bones set of libraries and nothing else.
The problem is... By hard-coding a bunch of xorg packages, you're making your DEPEND *less* accurate. Most packages will build just fine with other X implementations. Mmm, but for now this is pretty much a pointless argument. We're not a real metadistribution yet :) | I think concepts are important and abstract complexity from a | packages | DEPEND. However, having the DEPEND be accurate is important as well. | This almost reeks of the USE group GLEP being applied here as well. | Setting up DEPEND-set would be great for this, although it is | difficult to imagine sets that can be shared between many packages. | eclasses are marginally decent for this right now anyway. GLEP 37 allows that, in effect. Speaking of GLEP 37... Jason -- I'm assuming that virtual-x11/ (say) would be possible? | The problem with the individual approach is if I wanted to run | XFree, | or a competing X implementation, I have to add about 200+ packages to | /etc/portage/package.provided. This is not clean at all; it's | hideous. If I add the meta-build to /etc/portage/package.provided it | just means that I am managing the meta-ebuild and it is valid to count | it as installed for dep calculation. This is not true of any of the | dependencies of the meta-ebuild however. Thats just what I remember | fro m discussion about it, so correct me if it's wrong ;) Providing a specific metapackage is a bad idea. What if a package really does depend upon xorg? Providing a specific concept would be better. Whether such a thing is implementable currently is up for debate... -- Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
