Am Donnerstag, den 01.07.2010, 23:29 +0100 schrieb Phil Blundell: > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 15:16 -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > One of the issues with some form of USE flags, and I believe this is one > > of the big ones for Angstrom as well as any other public feed publishing > > distribution is that having a single recipe that does different things > > based on variables makes maintaining their feed (and allowing users to > > publish their own compatible feeds) a nightmare. > > It's only a nightmare if the flags in question are user-frobbable. If > they are all nailed down in the DISTRO configuration (which > DISTRO_FEATURES certainly ought to be), and those folks who want to > build compatible binaries just leave them alone, then there oughtn't to > be any real problem. To that extent it doesn't really seem any > different to the choice of compiler or tuning flags or glibc version or > any of the other ways in which you can already produce incompatible > binaries by flipping the wrong switches.
Agreed. I think we should be more open to this concept. At least for packages with optional (but "infecting") X11 support -- such as EFL -- I plan to use such a mechanism soon. -- :M: _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
