Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk

[Luke-Jr <luke-jr@gentoo.org>]

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Unless there are Tcl-specific features for an app, why depend on it at all? Tk 
depends on Tcl, that's fine. Let Tk's dependency pull it in. Why do Tk-based 
programs need to be aware of what Tk depends on?

On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:08 am, 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,

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Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
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