On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Greg Troxel wrote:
when one turns off something globally, then some packages stop depending on it. That's easy. But, it also means that say for global "-samba" (to pick my favorite thing to turn off) A built with -samba should not only depend on samba but also depend on B:-samba instead of B.
Well, just seeing it from the end user point of view, if the user has gone through the trouble of building A without samba, that user should be able to make an informed decision on B as well...
Building the entire set of options seems like a huge amount of building. But we could perhaps define the sets to build in the makefile so common cases are built
But is that (building every combination) something anyone would want right now? (This is the second time it is mentioned, and I still don't see why that would even be desirable.) Building with just the default options seems good enough, as long as they are sane.
MAgnus