From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jrpm4-0007Yw-5s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 May 2008 07:33:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71201E0867; Fri, 2 May 2008 07:33:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A16DE0867 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 07:33:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (27.241.66.209) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.5) id 48171039006019F0 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 2 May 2008 09:33:36 +0200 Message-ID: <481AC34C.4080500@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 09:31:24 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automagic dependencies in gegl References: <200805011217.37356.hanno@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200805011217.37356.hanno@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: adbabc6d-5e6a-46af-9de1-3fbeb3f58e13 X-Archives-Hash: 9d3909094e11f70b5c0814468d87feb9 Hanno B=C3=B6ck wrote: > Now, gegl has 13 optional dependencies that could be use-flagged. The p= ity is,=20 > it has no configure-option for most of them, they are autodetected. > (It's about gtk, ruby, lua, cairo, pango, libpng, openexr, rsvg, sdl,=20 > asciidoc, enscript, graphviz and ffmpeg) whoah! Quite a large number!. > My experience with the gimp developers in the past was that they weren'= t very=20 > pleased by bugs about automagic deps and I assume if I post them withou= t=20 > patches, they'll get closed immediately. Now I always avoided to dig to= o deep=20 > into autotools, so I don't feel skilled enough for this task. Ping me and we could work out something, probably the best way would be=20 hack a PKG_CONFIG_CONDITIONAL that does whatever the canned pkgconfig=20 does+ adding the --enable option. > Is there some brave gentoo dev (or non-dev, doesn't really matter)=20 > volunteering to send patches to gegl-upstream? We could teamwork having some autostuff monkey doing part of the work,=20 you helping us trying out the result and whoever has better contact with=20 upstream could try to get the thing there. > Beside, I'm asking myself how to handle this situation. Hard-enable the= m all=20 > as long as there are no patches? Let the automagic go in the tree? Opin= ions=20 > welcome. Where is the ebuild, put it as is hardmasked with a note about this,=20 then we could work together on it. lu --=20 Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list