Bugzilla Bug 202333

>>> Install rox-2.7-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/rox-base/rox-2.7-r1/image/ category rox-base
/usr/local/portage/rox-base/rox/rox-2.7-r1.ebuild: line 84:
/var/tmp/portage/rox-base/rox-2.7-r1/image//usr/bin/roxuri: Nie ma takiego
pliku ani katalogu
 * 
 * ERROR: rox-base/rox-2.7-r1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *           ebuild.sh, line 1701:  Called dyn_install
 *           ebuild.sh, line 1138:  Called qa_call 'src_install'
 *           ebuild.sh, line   44:  Called src_install
 *   rox-2.7-r1.ebuild, line   84:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *           cat >"${D}/usr/bin/${WRAPPERNAME}"
<"${D}/usr/bin/${WRAPPERNAME}uri" < tmp.native_feed || die "0distutils feed
edit     failed"
 *  The die message:
 *   0distutils feed edit     failed

Well...

BTW, why does it depends on something (rox-extra/videothumbnail) that depends
on mplayer ?

Reopen with errors in English; set your locales to C when reporting bugs.

Well, really...
That one could be guessed - it's 'No such file or directory'

Guessing is completely useless for any search purposes. Please respect the fact
that we don't want errors in $random language, it makes bugzilla useless plus
wastes developers time when fixing bugs.

OK, you can ignore this bug. It was still early after my last sync, so I got
the ebuild from gentoo-portage.com, but it seems that this site got an invalid
(maybe early) version of the ebuild. When I got the current one it worked.

Still, it sucks that it now depends on either mplayer or tomem, as I hate both
(mplayer for backwards GUI, totem for the whole Gnome concept - whoever thought
out HIG should be tortured for several millenniums, in example by being forced
to watch a movie that has a slightly wrong color balance and audio just
slightly out of sync, but nobody has added an option to tune that little
detail).

Sorry for the above, it's my standard anti-Gnome rant. I believe the whole
concept is flawed. My favorite quote on the topic : "Programming today is a
race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So
far, the Universe is winning.". When a program doesn't have a sane list of
configuration options, it's usability is often simply shot.

Well, I suppose I could make videothumbnail be USE-flag dependent.  But it is
somewhat "required" by rox, in that if you go into Options / Thumbnails, there
is a "Video thumbnails" button there, which tries to run videothumbnail when
you click it.

I agree that this is kind of silly for upstream to do, but that's what they
did, hence it is a runtime dependency.

But yes, a USE flag may be smart since it does bring in mplayer or totem, both
of which are big and ugly... I'll see what I can do.

Okay, did it.  rox-2.7-r2 now has IUSE=video, which is on by default (using the
new fancy IUSE defaults provided by EAPI=1).

Enjoy!