On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 01:08:33AM -0700, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> This has come up before, and I still wish to voice against it.  Like I
> said to Mike (vapier/spanky) in a previous post, and what msterret and I
> are working on fixing through the tree is:
> 
> tcltk? ( X? ( blah ) )
> 
> which is more accurate.  By separating them you run into this error
> case:
> 
> USE="-tcl tk"
> 
> except that tk needs tcl.  And once upon a time they actually were
> separate.  I put them together because every ebuild that had a tk dep in
> it was doing:
> 
> tcl? ( tcl ) tk? ( tk )
> 
> which is just silly really.
> 
> My 2 cents,

Two possible solutions for this:
1. Have the 'tk' USE flag imply the 'tcl' USE flag. This would cause the
'tcl? ( tcl ) tk? ( tk )' example to resolve correctly.
2. the ebuilds doing 'tcl? ( tcl ) tk? ( tk )' are quite clearly wrong,
as tk is the graphical toolkit for tcl, ergo they should have
'IUSE="tk"' and that would pull in tcl as well.

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