Bugzilla Bug 261562

Let's file bugs needed to reduce built_with_use usage in the tree as depends of
this one.

dev-java is in order besides waiting the removal of a couple of old ebuilds 

I finished up app-text today.

net-p2p in order when bug #260072 is in order

app-portage done

did sys-power and www-apps

net-firewall in order

net-dialup in order

net-im mostly in order, a few things need the built_with_use calls(lack of
[foo(+)] deps.

x11-wm done

net-analyzer mostly done.

What about adding bug #261757 to the dependency list. python_tkinter_exists
which is also called by distutils_python_tkinter is just another variant of
built_with_use so it makes sense to remove them too.

did www-apache

There are also a few eclasses utilizing built_with_use that should be taken
into account.

It follows a list with the eclasses and the number of ebuilds currently using
that eclass. More interesting would be how much ebuilds are actually using
functions from the eclass that invoke built_with_use to get sane usage numbers.
Unfortunately I was not able to get that data.

confutils.eclass used by 145 Ebuilds
depend.apache.eclass used by 56 Ebuilds
depend.php.eclass used by 202 Ebuilds
eutils.eclass used by 11578 Ebuilds
games-mods.eclass used by 86 Ebuilds
gkrellm-plugin.eclass used by 54 Ebuilds
horde.eclass used by 181 Ebuilds
java-utils-2.eclass used by 3 Ebuilds
kde4-base.eclass used by 109 Ebuilds
kde.eclass used by 10513 Ebuilds
mysql.eclass used by 3076 Ebuilds
php-common-r1.eclass used by 0 Ebuilds
phpconfutils.eclass used by 29 Ebuilds
qt4-build.eclass used by 144 Ebuilds
qt4.eclass used by 1170 Ebuilds
subversion.eclass used by 681 Ebuilds
toolchain.eclass used by 3245 Ebuilds
wxwidgets.eclass used by 273 Ebuilds
x-modular.eclass used by 1504 Ebuilds

Hm, I need to learn grep the following numbers should be more correct:

confutils.eclass used by 58 Ebuilds
depend.apache.eclass used by 56 Ebuilds
depend.php.eclass used by 202 Ebuilds
eutils.eclass used by 11309 Ebuilds
games-mods.eclass used by 58 Ebuilds
gkrellm-plugin.eclass used by 46 Ebuilds
horde.eclass used by 48 Ebuilds
java-utils-2.eclass used by 3 Ebuilds
kde4-base.eclass used by 47 Ebuilds
kde.eclass used by 1992 Ebuilds
mysql.eclass used by 667 Ebuilds
php-common-r1.eclass used by 0 Ebuilds
phpconfutils.eclass used by 3 Ebuilds
qt4-build.eclass used by 47 Ebuilds
qt4.eclass used by 332 Ebuilds
subversion.eclass used by 227 Ebuilds
toolchain.eclass used by 2963 Ebuilds
wxwidgets.eclass used by 126 Ebuilds
x-modular.eclass used by 665 Ebuilds

Created an attachment (id=185462) [details]
ebuilds using built_with_use via eclass-functions

I was not able to get a list of functions within an eclass which invoke
built_with_use by a script. So I manually searched for this functions and used
qgrep to find the ebuilds using this functions.

(In reply to comment #11)
> What about adding bug #261757 to the dependency list. python_tkinter_exists
> which is also called by distutils_python_tkinter is just another variant of
> built_with_use so it makes sense to remove them too.
> 

I commented on that bug too, but I want to put it here for clarity. Please do
not make python-2.5 EAPI=2. This is very bad for Gentoo to have portage/python
at EAPI=>0 because if people have old installs then they cannot upgrade at all.

app-i18n done when dependency stable request and cleanup in order

built_with_use is still not fully replaced with USE deps. i.e. the --missing
option is not accounted for with EAPI=2 USE deps fully

(In reply to comment #18)
> built_with_use is still not fully replaced with USE deps. i.e. the --missing
> option is not accounted for with EAPI=2 USE deps fully
> 

Yes it's not but by being careful and using proper version restrictions I
haven't found a case I couldn't convert yet. It will of course be easier for
developers with EAPI 3.