From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31086 invoked by uid 1002); 17 Aug 2003 08:18:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7473 invoked from network); 17 Aug 2003 08:18:41 -0000 From: Tony Clark To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:18:39 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030817075537.GA16981@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> In-Reply-To: <20030817075537.GA16981@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308171018.39972.tclark@telia.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk X-Archives-Salt: 69053f65-ed13-460e-8396-1524a110a658 X-Archives-Hash: 6da91cea58de198076ce397c9931f849 On Sunday 17 August 2003 09.55, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > I'd like comments on splitting the tcltk USE flag into 'tcl' and 'tk' > USE flags. > > My primary motivation for this is that I am putting together many more > servers lately, and I need tcl on them, but I don't want X there. > doing 'USE=tcltk emerge python' pulls in xfree due to > tcltk? ( ...tk... ) in the python ebuild. > > Advantages: > 1. More accurately reflects what a package uses, and allows for better > customization. > > Disadvantages: > 2. Changing existing ebuilds to the new style > 3. Users with tcltk have to update their USE flags. > > I am more than willing to bear the brunt of the work of updating the > ebuilds if there are no objections to this. Wouldn't it be nicer to use overloading on use flags, so that -X took priority. ie if -X never build X aware options of any packages. /tony -- Contract ASIC and FPGA design. Telephone +46 702 894 667 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x633E2623 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list