Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 19 February 2006 05:06, Mike McCormack wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>and adding a way to hide problems that probably don't belong to Wine in > >> the first place. > > > > i dont understand what you mean here at all ... > > Perhaps give me an example of what doesn't work when you conf

Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 18 February 2006 22:27, Mike McCormack wrote: > It's good for people to build Wine without switching off features so > that as much of the build as possible is tested on each machine. so we're clear, it sounds like you wouldnt accept any patch for this regardless of how it was written

Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 19 February 2006 04:48, Mike McCormack wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > imo, the guy building the package knows more about the target features > > than anyone else, and they should have the power to control what is and > > isnt enabled ... forcing everyone to build everything they can a

Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Saturday 18 February 2006 08:46, Mike McCormack wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > this patch adds a bunch of --without-FOO options to configure ... some > > are very simple (like the sane/xml checks) while some others are slightly > > more involved > > What's the point of crippling Wine like th

Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-19 Thread Mike McCormack
Mike Frysinger wrote: this may be ok for most users who download and build themselves, but this isnt useful for distro package maintainers So, what is it that doesn't work in your packages when you configure Wine the normal way? Mike

Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-19 Thread Mike McCormack
Mike Frysinger wrote: and adding a way to hide problems that probably don't belong to Wine in the first place. i dont understand what you mean here at all ... Perhaps give me an example of what doesn't work when you configure Wine the normal way, then we can talk about the solution to spe

Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-19 Thread Mike McCormack
Mike Frysinger wrote: so we're clear, it sounds like you wouldnt accept any patch for this regardless of how it was written ? I'm not the one who accepts or rejects patches, so it's not me you have to convince. I'm just reviewing your patch. imo, the guy building the package knows more ab

Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-18 Thread Mike McCormack
Mike Frysinger wrote: the point of the patch is to allow people to have finer control over the featureset of wine ... for example, you wish to build on one machine but deploy on others, you cannot be sure what features wine will require if the build env has many more packages than the target

Re: add configure options to control support of misc packages

2006-02-18 Thread Mike McCormack
Mike Frysinger wrote: this patch adds a bunch of --without-FOO options to configure ... some are very simple (like the sane/xml checks) while some others are slightly more involved What's the point of crippling Wine like this? Mike