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Bug 13484

Summary: gdk-pixbuf shouldn't have hard coded dependency on gnome-libs
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Ronny Schoebel <ronny>
Component: [OLD] GNOMEAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: carsten.schmidt, erichey2, flash3001, matthias.foerste
Priority: High    
Version: 1.4_rc2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 7693, 41170    

Description Ronny Schoebel 2003-01-08 05:58:00 UTC
media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 has a hard coded dependency on gnome-base/gnome-libs. 
Since I have KDE installed I don't need gnome-libs. But I need gdk-pixbuf (which works fine 
without gnome-libs after modifying the ebuild). I suggest adding this dependency only if the 
'gnome' use flag is set. 
I need gdk-pixbuf for xosd-2.0.1 and installing orbit and gnome-libs for that is a bit overkill.
Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-11 11:33:15 UTC
according to the ebuild the dep is static for a reason, a lot of ppl might end
up with broken installs if we remove it. It's a bad/bad decision, but i think
the current way is the least worse in terms of ppl affected. And if it bothers
you, you know how to get around it ;)

Maybe we can fix this one day the right way when portage supports checking use
flags on installed packs.
Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-26 09:29:04 UTC
*** Bug 14406 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-08 17:01:17 UTC
*** Bug 17075 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Alexandru Toma 2005-01-29 10:54:18 UTC
> Maybe we can fix this one day the right way when portage supports checking use
> flags on installed packs.

Now that portage supports this feature can this finally be fixed?

Check out built_with_use() from the eutils class.