Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@skylineaero.com>]

Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
> 
> On 12 May 2004, at 17:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> 
>> But they are only 'scheduled for installation' if the USE flag is 
>> activated. The '--emptytree' flag gets emerge in some weird 'chicken 
>> and egg' situation. With '--emptytree' set, emerge should assume 
>> nothing is installed. If nothing is installed, then tcl and tk aren't 
>> installed and the 'tcltk' USE flag shouldn't be auto-activated.
> 
> 
> true, unless of course tcl and tk are in the world file, or some other 
> installed package depends on both, and therefore causes the tcltk use 
> flag to be triggered.
> but it should certainly not auto-enable the USE flag (if it isn't 
> enabled specifically) because the current system has it enabled. 
> --emptytree should assume nothing is installed

I don't think tcl or tk being in the world file would/should affect anything 
while '--emptytree' is in use. Also, I think that the only thing that depends on 
tcl or tk in the xfree dependency tree is python, and that's with the 'tcltk' 
USE flag. I believe this is a Portage bug.

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