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?
My thought is wait until portage-2.2_alpha where we will have default
USE flags. Then I can see putting client/server flags up and having
both be default, letting the user turn off clients and servers in
/etc/portage/package.use.
Thanks
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