The media-sound/noteedit ebuilds have a hard dependency on arts. If I understand the sayings written upstream (http://noteedit.berlios.de/doc/from_source.html#requirements) correctly, arts is not necessary for building noteedit. I will put an edited ebuild in my portage overlay and report back my findings later.
Because it doesn't build without it. Good luck. ;)
(In reply to comment #1) > Because it doesn't build without it. Good luck. ;) > Not true, I have successfully built noteedit 2.8.0 without arts here on my amd64 box. It seems to work as expected, although playing the notation isn't doing it for me as I haven't got a soundcard with midi-support in the alsa drivers.
Together with timidity it works without arts. When will we see that arts dependency removed?
The configure scripts requires aRTs to be present, please tell upstream to update their admin directory if aRTs is really optional.
Created attachment 98603 [details, diff] patch for noteedit-2.8.0.ebuild to allow compilation without arts Just looked at the sources from noteedit-2.8.0.tar.gz, and the admin/acinclude.m4.in file seems to have the test that you want. My computer have no arts installed whatsoever, and noteedit using the patched noteedit-2.8.0.ebuild can be installed and used without problem.
Reopening, will fix properly then.
Fixed properly now, by updating admindir.
