Now that I've turned on -v for doing my "what do I need to update" queries, I noticed that I got: root # emerge -v -uUDp xfree These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2 [4.3.0-r1] -3dfx -sse +mmx +3dnow -xml +truetype +nls -cjk -doc Checked my settings: root # emerge info Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex svga java guile mysql sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr X gtk gnome cups tcltk" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" Now, xfree uses "xml", but I request "xml2". Checked the ebuild for why "xml" is being used and found: if [ -n "`use xml`" ] then echo "#define HasLibxml2 YES" >> config/cf/host.def fi This looks wrong - the check is checking for "xml" (which is specifically libxml v1), but the reason it appears to be doing it is to say that libxml v2 exists. I reckon that this should be "use xml2", not "use xml" (and hence an updated IUSE as well). Of course, I may be wrong... phil
Phil, you are correct. The thing is, I believe that the xml2 flag is going to die anyway. Can the UFED people respond and let me know if the "xml2" flag is needed still?
Currently the xml and xml2 use flags are being used by the following packages: xml: app-text/htmltidy dev-php/mod_php dev-php/php media-sound/xmms net-fs/samba x11-base/xfree x11-misc/xscreensaver xml2: app-misc/workrave app-office/abiword dev-libs/commoncpp2 dev-php/mod_php dev-php/php media-gfx/imagemagick media-gfx/sodipodi media-video/vcdimager There are still a few packages that have specific xml2 support, but I dont know enough about xml vs xml2 to answer your question.
Both of the old libxml and the new libxml2 packages are used by various applications AFAIK. The author of both did advocate that everybody move to libxml2 where they were using libxml previously, but as it required some non-trivial changes in programs to implement, not everybody has moved yet. Therefore I think both of the xml/xml2 flags should still exist. However somebody should go thru the current set of apps that use them and check that they have the correct flag in each. Eg xfree didn't have the right one.
xfree-4.3.0-r3 will make use of the xml2 USE flag instead.
Please re-open this bug until it *is* fixed, please. I fail to see the +xml2 that I would expect, but continue to see -xml. And the ebuild script confirms that nothing has been changed... root # emerge -v -uUDp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 [4.3.0-r2] -3dfx -sse +mmx +3dnow -xml +truetype +nls -cjk -doc -ipv6 [...]
