From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NeUCm-0007PJ-CX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:03:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8594EE0D98; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1ECDE0DCC for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:02:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F887642EB for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:02:57 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.07 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.07 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.471, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3P452yxiKT0A for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808AF67E78 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:02:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NeUCK-00067X-BA for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:44 +0100 Received: from athedsl-377952.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.28.94]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:44 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-377952.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:02:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: "X" vs "gtk" USE flags Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:02:30 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4B6FF5F0.9010908@gentoo.org> <4B6FF7D5.8090907@gentoo.org> <4B70149D.6020702@allenjb.me.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-377952.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100206 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4B70149D.6020702@allenjb.me.uk> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 51f796d4-aed3-4430-8af3-25f0b542a05a X-Archives-Hash: 83e43f8d19e79926e9dd600aab285c99 On 02/08/2010 03:41 PM, AllenJB wrote: > On 08/02/10 12:32, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 02/08/2010 01:39 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >>> IMHO. USE="X" is for controlling X.org dependencies, not for avoiding >>> everything that deps on them, so I disagree. >> >> I was under the impression that USE flags are for enabling/disabling >> features, not for controlling deps. DEPEND and RDEPEND is, AFAIK, the >> way to control deps. >> >> > Features influence dependencies. If you enable kde features the package > will require kde dependencies. So use flags and dependencies are > irrevocably linked. > > What Samuli is saying is that the X flag should be specifically for X > (and not X-related, such as graphical libraries) features, while the kde > and gtk use flags should remain in use as they are. This way when you > see "X" as a use flag, you know it means "enable X features" and isn't > likely to pull in anything but X libraries, if you see "kde" you know it > means "enable kde features" and isn't likely to pull in anything but kde > libraries, and so on. So I guess what I was really proposing then was a "gui" USE flag :P Sorry about that, I didn't fully understand the meaning of the X flag.