The gtk flag for polkit add dependencies those dependencies gtk? ( || ( >=gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.101 lxde-base/lxpolkit ) ) those dependencies are clearly unrelated with the gtk toolkit. there are merely related on gtk-based desktop environment. I propose: 1/ rename and split flag: lxde, gnome gnome? ( >=gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.101 ) !gnome? ( lxde? ( lxde-base/lxpolkit ) ) 2/ document the flag in metadata.xml Second proposal is just an easy workaround. Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Actual Results: gtk flag adds dependency to desktop environment components Expected Results: gtk flag shouldn't add dependency to desktop environment components
The dependencies are clearly only GTK+ specific with nothing more than GTK+ and polkit in dependencies, used by *any* XDG /etc/xdg/autostart supporting desktop.
(In reply to comment #1) > The dependencies are clearly only GTK+ specific with nothing more than GTK+ and > polkit in dependencies, used by *any* XDG /etc/xdg/autostart supporting > desktop. So we are speaking about desktop, not about toolkit, then why the flag is named as the toolkit not the desktop environment ? The ebuild got a kde flag, why isn't it named qt or qt4? Because it's not related to the window toolkit but to the desktop environment (even the desktop environment is based on the toolkit). kde? ( || ( sys-auth/polkit-kde-agent sys-auth/polkit-kde ) ) The kde and qt flags fits well to their respective usage, where the gnome(,lxde) and gtk flag are confused in many ebuilds
The gtk flag is used to any gtk desktop (gnome, xfce, lxde, ...). There's no point in having 3 USE flags for the same action on a simple ebuild like this. KDE guys are "lucky" to only have one desktop to care about, that's all.
The point isn't to know if KDE guy's are lucky or not. The main point is that gtk flag shouldn't be used for gnome dependencies. One user should be able to skip the sync of categories gnome-* when he adds -gnome to his useflags. One can do it with lxde-*, gpe-*, xfce-*, or kde-*, but not with gnome-*
(In reply to comment #4) > The point isn't to know if KDE guy's are lucky or not. > The main point is that gtk flag shouldn't be used for gnome dependencies. it's not gnome dependency, it's GTK+ policykit authentication agent, not specific to gnome at all, it's for everything else *except* KDE just like the installed XDG .desktop autostart entry implies: NotShowIn=KDE; > One user should be able to skip the sync of categories gnome-* when he adds > -gnome to his useflags. untrue, gnome categories include important components like librsvg, used by even headless machines through gdk-pixbuf, for eg. imagemagick would be pretty stupid move to exclude them. > One can do it with lxde-*, gpe-*, xfce-*, or kde-*, but not with gnome-* unrelated to this bug don't reopen again
