From: Spider <spider@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:15:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030817151526.056f2f54.spider@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030817083228.GC16981@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:32:28 -0700
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> 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 wel
We have that with gtk and gtk2, and users don't understand it. We are at
about 1 bug report / week for that due to the nesting (one turn on/off
and one prefer-gtk2)
I'd still prefer that the python ebuild was fixed to be:
DEPEND="tcltk? ( X? ( >=dev-lang/tk-8.4 )) " instead of breaking it
further.
//Spider
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-17 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-17 7:55 [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk Robin H. Johnson
2003-08-17 8:02 ` Jon Portnoy
2003-08-17 8:08 ` Seemant Kulleen
2003-08-17 8:32 ` Robin H. Johnson
2003-08-17 13:15 ` Spider [this message]
2003-08-18 0:19 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-09-16 4:06 ` Georgi Georgiev
2003-08-17 16:01 ` George Shapovalov
2003-08-17 13:48 ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-17 8:18 ` Tony Clark
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