234159 – media-gfx/gimp could have USE="raw"

Bug 234159 - media-gfx/gimp could have USE="raw"

Summary: media-gfx/gimp could have USE="raw"

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2008-08-07 08:41 UTC by Henrik Johansson
Modified:	2008-08-07 15:27 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Henrik Johansson 2008-08-07 08:41:46 UTC

Gimp could have USE="raw" to install ufraw just as ufraw uses the gimp use flag.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
The following should install ufraw:
$ USE="raw" emerge gimp

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-07 15:27:48 UTC

Wouldn't you then get circular dependencies setting USE='raw gimp' (when first emerging either media-gfx/ufraw or media-gfx/gimp? (The answer is YES.) In other words, why would you want to set USE=raw for media-gfx/gimp if the only added value, if such it is, were to install ufraw as well. And then, what about media-gfx/dcraw? - it has IUSE=gimp as well and does exactly what media-gfx/ufraw does with it:

$ euses -cs gimp
gimp - Build a plugin for the GIMP