Ever heard of use dependencies? Way you are proposing this is just more work and no solutions to real problems.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > while building yum, I again ran into trouble because one > dependency has to be rebuilt with an specific useflag first > (in this case it was libxml2 + python useflag). Actually, > there are *lots* of these cases and (AFAIK) portage has no > way for properly handling this - it's up to the individual > ebuilds to check for those situations and artifically breaking > the build. Of coure, breaking builds are ugly. > > My suggestion: make those language bindings being separate > packages. So, other packages can depend on them directly, > instead of the current, build-breaking hack. > > I'm not advocating gentoo should do this step alone, but > instead join in the upstream and solve it there. > > > cu Thanks ŁM
