Bug 139809 – fdo-mime.eclass DEPENDs

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2006-07-09 12:47:48 UTC]

I was puzzled today why fdo-mime.eclass didn't work, and found out it doesn't DEPEND on dev-util/desktop-file-utils which provides update-desktop-database. For some reason I had allready x11-misc/shared-mime-info for update-mime-database command.

DEPEND="x11-misc/shared-mime-info
dev-util/desktop-file-utils"

to make commands available it uses.

[22:18] <@dberkholz> drac: it's common, if it's needed for everything using the
                     eclass

from #gentoo-desktop when I asked about it.

Sorry if this is a duplicate, I was unable to locate existing bug.

-drac

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2006-07-09 16:53:46 UTC]

fdo eclass currently only serves as a place to put common functions. Some apps may not need all of the deps and as such it is still upon individual ebuilds to provide them. I can't really think of a situation anyway that the eclass is used where these dependencies should not already be installed.

So my question to you is, what ebuild didn't the eclass work with ?

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2006-07-22 08:47:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> fdo eclass currently only serves as a place to put common functions. Some apps
> may not need all of the deps and as such it is still upon individual ebuilds to
> provide them. I can't really think of a situation anyway that the eclass is
> used where these dependencies should not already be installed.
> 
> So my question to you is, what ebuild didn't the eclass work with ?
> 

To be honest..

I was installing system from scratch, and was on state where only modular X was installed and minimal set of of Xfce4. ebuilds using fdo-mime was mostly from overlay.

And what you've said "Some apps may not need all of the deps" is true so I'm closing this a WONTFIX.

Sorry for inconvinience, if there was any.

Thanks, drac