Bug 39959 – "caps" and "jack-caps" - redundant flags

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rossen Apostolov 2004-01-31 04:27:00 UTC]

"caps" and "jack-caps" are both responsible for a sys-libs/libcap dependency


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. 
# grep caps /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc 
app-crypt/gnupg:caps - Use Linux capabilities library to control privileges.
media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit:jack-caps - enable capabilities

2.
 # grep libcap /usr/portage/media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.94.0.ebuild /usr/portage/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.2.3-r5.ebuild 
/usr/portage/media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit/jack-audio-connection-kit-0.94.0.ebuild:     jack-caps? ( sys-libs/libcap )
/usr/portage/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-1.2.3-r5.ebuild:             caps? ( sys-libs/libcap )



Expected Results:  
Isn't that redundant? Maybe leave only "caps"
and change the jack ebuild

[Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-05 03:00:34 UTC]

Torbenh, I think this is a good idea.  I think we might want to consider adding it as a global use flag since ebuilds other than gnupg and jack will probably want to use it too...

[Comment 2 Torben Hohn (RETIRED) 2004-02-11 23:45:36 UTC]

yeah that would be nice.
but how do we tell people ?

and we still dont have this use flag in the kernels.

with 2.6 its only a matter of installing my LSM refined by jack`O`Quinn..

but with a 2.4 it requires a 2 line patch in the kernel.

but i will change the USe flag when the next jack release comes out.

[Comment 3 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-26 15:31:57 UTC]

i'm going to change jack to use caps instead... iff jackcaps is set, it'll give them a message.

[Comment 4 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) 2004-02-26 15:39:44 UTC]

Done... caps is now a global use flag, and jack-caps has been removed... I left a check for it in the ebuilds which causes an eerror to be printed and the ebuild to exit.