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Bug 373649 - dev-lang/R and graphics
Summary: dev-lang/R and graphics
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Science Mathematics related packages
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Reported: 2011-06-30 20:30 UTC by Cedric Sodhi
Modified: 2012-01-02 19:56 UTC (History)
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Description Cedric Sodhi 2011-06-30 20:30:55 UTC 
The X use flag on R pulls in an extremely long list of things, none of which I deem necessary nor want on my system so I go without X. Then in R, all graphics capabilities are suddenly disabled, although png and jpeg and others are said to be enabled as by the USE flags:


> capabilities( )
    jpeg      png     tiff    tcltk      X11     aqua http/ftp  sockets 
   FALSE    FALSE    FALSE    FALSE    FALSE    FALSE     TRUE     TRUE 
  libxml     fifo   cledit    iconv      NLS  profmem    cairo 
    TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE     TRUE    FALSE 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE='-X -java' emerge dev-lang/R
2. R
Comment 1 Cedric Sodhi 2011-06-30 20:36:44 UTC 
It looks like that disabling the X flag means --without-X to configure. This seems utter nonsense to me, why would you possible deactivate an optional configure option by USE flags...
Comment 2 Cedric Sodhi 2011-06-30 20:47:30 UTC 
Seems not to be the case with the -java USE flag. R compiles against java despite -java. That's how it should be.
Comment 3 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-07-20 20:05:17 UTC 
so if i understand the problem, when X is disabled png/tiff/jpeg are as well? it might be what upstream wants in which case there is nothing to do in our part.
Comment 4 Cedric Sodhi 2011-10-20 20:57:59 UTC 
Is anyone looking into this at all? Has the maintainer of R gone missing?
Comment 5 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-01-02 19:56:04 UTC 
you will need cairo or X enabled to get any of tiff, png or jpeg capabilities. I added a REQUIRED_USE in the latest R-2.14.1 in cvs to deal with this requirement. 
Thanks.