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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Add flags to kdemultimedia "configure" script.
From:       Simone Gotti <simone.gotti () email ! it>
Date:       2005-01-25 9:54:32
Message-ID: 24e0955cbac10a797e8bc2c5c2e2e35e () 193 ! 227 ! 212 ! 131
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 Da: kde-devel@kde.org
 To: kde-devel@kde.org <kde-devel@kde.org>
 Oggetto: Re: Add flags to kdemultimedia "configure" script.
 Data: 25/01/05 01:12
 
 > 
> 
> On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:36, Simone Gotti wrote:
> &gt; Hi to All,
> &gt;
> &gt; Here in gentoo an user can choose (using the USE flags) which
features of a
> &gt; program he wants to enable.
> &gt;
> &gt; A lot of parts of kde (for example the &quot;akode&quot; library)
checks for various
> &gt; programs/libs present on the system and then enable specific code for
them.
> &gt;
> You are supposed to only install the parts you want. This is usually the
job 
> of the packager. For instance you install juk by only running make install

> under juk. For aKode the idea is the same with the plugins. They can all
be 
> installed separatly. Not that I dislike your patch, it can be usefull for 
> developers using cvs, but a packager or user shouldn't use that.
> 
> `Allan
>  
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You are speaking thinking of binary distributions, and this will not always
work because many times it's not always the matter of removing a .so files,
there are some #defines inside the code that will change it's behavior, and
just not installing some files won't work. (there are a lot of examples).

Probably you are missing how gentoo works. We have USE flags. If an user
sets USE="-vorbis -flac" and the in calls "emerge akode" this means that it
wants akode WITHOUT vorbis and flac plugins.

So it's defintaly NOT the job of the packager.
 
The motto is "Gentoo is about choiche" and an user is free to choose what he
wants and what not.
 
I cannot see any problem adding this configure flags as the default behavior
is THE SAME. You won't notice any change but we, "gentoo packagers" and all
the gentoo "users" will take a great gain.
 
Bye!
 
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