On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 14:10 +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > Some packages provide both a client and a server. As such, users usually only > want one or the other - and rarely both. > > A good candidate is net-misc/dhcp as it installs a DHCP client and server. > Which makes no sense really, so I'd like to put some USE flags here to show > what I want, or not want to build. > > A quick scan through the use flags show no real consistency, so here's what I > propose > > USE client server > client - just build the client - duh > server - just build the server - duh > client and server OR neither then build both. > > Other packages to possably beneift > udhcp > mldonkey > samhain > bacula > boxbackup > > Interestingly, many packages have a server USE flag but not a client one - > maybe make both a global USE flag? > > Good idea? Bad idea? Thoughts?
(Yeah, I know, repeating our IRC conversation.) Bug #12499 The truth is that we don't ever want to become like the binary distributions. We don't want to have to have separate client/server/common/devel as it removes many of the advantages that Gentoo has. The default should *always* be to install the package as it was intended from upstream, completely intact. Now, it has started to become a practice to have a "minimal" USE flag on certain packages that reduces the functionality to the bare client portion. I see no real problem with this, so long as the default is to always build/install the full package. That's my $0.02 on the matter. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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