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* [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?
@ 2011-06-28 12:52 Sebastian Beßler
  2011-06-28 13:57 ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Sebastian Beßler @ 2011-06-28 12:52 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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Hello,

atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player
that can not be disabled.

#required by amarok (argument)
=media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player

If this flag is required at all costs, why make a flag at all? What good
is a switch that can not be toggled?

Greetings

Sebastian


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* Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?
  2011-06-28 12:52 [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled? Sebastian Beßler
@ 2011-06-28 13:57 ` Alan McKinnon
  2011-06-28 14:01 ` Neil Bothwick
  2011-06-28 14:01 ` Mark Knecht
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Alan McKinnon @ 2011-06-28 13:57 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user; +Cc: Sebastian Beßler

On Tuesday 28 June 2011 14:52:22 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly:
> Hello,
> 
> atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag
> player that can not be disabled.
> 
> #required by amarok (argument)
> =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player
> 
> If this flag is required at all costs, why make a flag at all? What
> good is a switch that can not be toggled?


amarok and amarok-utils are now the same ebuild. You can do one or the 
other.

You can disable the player flag, but then you must enable the utils 
flag which means you want to build the utilities like 
collectionscanner. 


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?
  2011-06-28 12:52 [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled? Sebastian Beßler
  2011-06-28 13:57 ` Alan McKinnon
@ 2011-06-28 14:01 ` Neil Bothwick
  2011-06-28 14:32   ` Sebastian Beßler
  2011-06-28 14:01 ` Mark Knecht
  2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Neil Bothwick @ 2011-06-28 14:01 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:52:22 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote:

> atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player
> that can not be disabled.
> 
> #required by amarok (argument)
> =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player
> 
> If this flag is required at all costs, why make a flag at all? What good
> is a switch that can not be toggled?

As usual, the answer comes from reading the ebuild. You must have at
least one of player or utils in USE. -player works fine, as long as you
don't also have -utils.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

3 things happen as you age: 1) Your memory goes; 2) uh..um

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* Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?
  2011-06-28 12:52 [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled? Sebastian Beßler
  2011-06-28 13:57 ` Alan McKinnon
  2011-06-28 14:01 ` Neil Bothwick
@ 2011-06-28 14:01 ` Mark Knecht
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mark Knecht @ 2011-06-28 14:01 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Sebastian Beßler
<sebastian@darkmetatron.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> atm I play with some use-flags and found that amarok has the flag player
> that can not be disabled.
>
> #required by amarok (argument)
> =media-sound/amarok-2.4.1 player
>
> If this flag is required at all costs, why make a flag at all? What good
> is a switch that can not be toggled?
>
> Greetings
>
> Sebastian

You don't show what flag this is so it's hard to know exactly what you
are seeing. However having amarok is an option. I see it's somehow
associated with KDE but it's not on my system.

Maybe if amarok was not on your system then this flag could then be disabled?

- Mark



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* Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?
  2011-06-28 14:01 ` Neil Bothwick
@ 2011-06-28 14:32   ` Sebastian Beßler
  2011-06-28 15:44     ` Neil Bothwick
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Beßler @ 2011-06-28 14:32 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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Am 28.06.2011 16:01, schrieb Neil Bothwick:

> As usual, the answer comes from reading the ebuild. You must have at
> least one of player or utils in USE. -player works fine, as long as you
> don't also have -utils.

Thanks all of you, that really helped.

The autounmask output looked like there was only that one option so I
was puzzled.  It would have been better if it had printed both options
(player and/or utils) in this case.

I should really read the ebuild first before asking dumb questions :-)

Greetings

Sebastian Beßler


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* Re: [gentoo-user] Why have a use-flag that can not be disabled?
  2011-06-28 14:32   ` Sebastian Beßler
@ 2011-06-28 15:44     ` Neil Bothwick
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Neil Bothwick @ 2011-06-28 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:32:38 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote:

> The autounmask output looked like there was only that one option so I
> was puzzled.  It would have been better if it had printed both options
> (player and/or utils) in this case.

It seems that autounmask suggests the first option that will satisfy,
rather than giving a list of all the options. The latter would get
horrendously complicated with multiple flags each with multiple
dependencies.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, but give him a case of
dynamite and soon the village will be showered with mud and seaweed and
unidentifiable chunks of fish.

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