I'm using the gnome subprofile. I had to turn on the gconf useflag myself to emerge net-voip/ekiga. I think it could be added to the default useflag list for the gnome subprofile. Thanks. Reproducible: Always $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_E7400_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:45:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mmmx -msse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -mmmx -msse" DISTDIR="/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ " LANG="fr_FR.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="fr" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/portage/trees/gentoo" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/portage/trees/perso /portage/trees/tempo" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gconf gdbm gdu gif gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gstreamer gtk iconv java jpeg lcms libnotify mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses network-cron nls nptl nptlonly ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
What problem did you have with ekiga compiled with "gnome" and "-gconf" USE flags?
(In reply to comment #1) > What problem did you have with ekiga compiled with "gnome" and "-gconf" USE > flags? > Not really a problem. I actually had to modify the default ports of ekiga to try to solve a problem. The documentation that I was reading talked about gconf keys to modify, but I could not find them. I then realized that ekiga was built with "-gconf", and all configuration stuff was in a plain text file. But since I'm using the gnome subprofile, I was expecting that I had the gconf support auto-enabled.
The problem here is that "gconf" support is being deprecated (as you probably know, future Gnome 3 won't even use it), looking at ebuilds still using gconf USE flags, looks like in most of them it's not really a requirement for working under Gnome (looks more like "optional"), and, for example, with compiz, it looks to be recommended to disable that support if possible. Then, if ekiga-3 really needs to have gconf enabled on a Gnome based system, maybe we could enable it only for that ebuild.
(In reply to comment #3) > The problem here is that "gconf" support is being deprecated (as you probably > know, future Gnome 3 won't even use it) I didn't know that. > Then, if ekiga-3 really needs to have gconf enabled on a Gnome based system, > maybe we could enable it only for that ebuild. > No, it doesn't really need it, I guess that it works without it, but when you read the ekiga wiki [1] for troubleshooting, tips and tricks, they speak almost everywhere about gconf, gconf-editor and gconftool-2. If gconf will disappear in a near future, it doesn't worth to activate it, but in the other hand, applications that currently use gconf will probably migrate to the new GSettings/dconf system ? It is not really important, but I was simply surprised to not have the gconf support enabled with the gnome profile. [1] http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Main_Page
Closing per last comments. gconf replacement is achieved by migrating to gsettings, you can still use gconf as a backend for gsettings, but dconf or nothing at all if you wish so. Applications will not link against gconf anymore but against gsettings which is in glib, so always present for a glib based application. No more use flag, no more problem :).
