[ic] Gentoo ebuild

[Kevin Walsh]

Peter <peter at pajamian.dhs.org> wrote:
> On 11/04/2006 01:32 AM, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> > One other thing:  You should add some sort of "are you nuts?" warning
> > if the "ithreads" USE flag is found to be switched on when your
> > "www-apps/interchange" ebuild is called.  As you may know, Gentoo won't
> > build Perl with threads enabled unless this USE flag has been specified.
> > Gentoo describes the "ithreads" USE flag as "Enable Perl threads, has
> > some compatibility problems."  Your warning should probably be a little
> > more descriptive than my suggested text. :-)
> >
> I think it would be a good idea to have use flags for the various
> different dbs, or at least for the "big three", (MySQL, PostgreSQL and
> Oracle) which would require the additional DBD module and of course the
> database itself.  I would recommend this for the www-apps/interchange
> package.
> 
The "mysql" (MySQL) and "postgres" (PostgreSQL) USE flags already exist,
and are auto-set by Portage when a database server is installed.  The
bundle could check for the database USE flags it has been told about,
and add DBD module (and database server) dependencies, as appropriate.

There are bound to be USE flags for the likes of Oracle and Sybase too.
I haven't looked.

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