Bugzilla Bug 210067

As arts is not supported by the Gentoo KDE team, is no longer being developed
by KDE and is not used with KDE-4.0, please drop it from the emul-linux-x86-*
packages.

Reproducible: Always

*** Bug 210661 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 211640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 200163 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 214699 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I believe there are some binary games that require the arts libraries.  Games
team: Please confirm that removing arts support will not break binary games.

It doesn't look like there are. We can fix/remove any we find later.

*** Bug 227279 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Just installed app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20080810 but running
revdep-rebuild I still get:
 * Checking dynamic linking consistency
 *   broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib32/libqtmcop.so.1.0.0 (requires libqt-mt.so.3)

(see bug 204817 and bug 200163 marked as a duplicate of this one)


When is /usr/kde/3.5/lib32/libqtmcop.so.1.0.0 required? Deleting it and running
revdep-rebuild again I get
 * Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.

Couldn't /usr/kde/3.5/lib32/libqtmcop.so.1.0.0 be packaged within
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs?

We will be dropping the arts use flag and support in the next set of emul
packages.  This bug to remain open to remind me...

same here ... 

Mike, can you please take a look on this? Seems that new rc is still providing
arts support (and also has USE="+arts")

Thanks a lot

*** Bug 256198 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 288141 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I just synced about a half hour ago, and this remains.

*** Bug 287813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

ok, so here is the issue:  Old binary games link to arts due to their SDL
linking to arts.  If someone wants to write a arts-stub package that satisfies
the linker then I'll include that instead of the arts package otherwise I'll
continue to ship arts to only satisfy the linker.  We don't have to support
arts actually working.

If you come up with a stub library or another idea to accomplish the same thing
then please reopen this bug.

How many old games are still requiring arts? If they are not many, maybe arts
32 libs could be packages on a different package allowing users of other 32bits
apps and games to not have to install that libs... :-/

As an alternative, how about a control file to keep revdep-rebuild from
continually trying to rebuild the package?

Perl-cleaner also tries to keep rebuilding it; not sure if that could be
satisfied a similar way.

I just wanted to mention that I resolved this by emerging
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs-20081109

I resolved it by compiling firefox instead of using the bin. Works for me. The
compiled version starts and operates faster, anyway. Yay!