i like having tcl on my servers (because its a neat scripting language) but i dont like having tk on my servers (cause its a server, stupid) any chance we could get this var split up into 2 ?
show me examples of where splitting it achieves your goall
ill find some concrete examples, but i just dont like dev-lang/tk being on my server since its not useful
wh00t, heres some i want tcl, i dont want tk, but if i have 'tcltk' in USE, then it installs dev- lang/tk for the following packages: dev-db/postgresql dev-lang/python (which means tk is on your system from the start :])
If you take a look at the postgresql ebuild you'll find that if "tcltk" is in USE then tcl will be installed as a dep, not tk. In the case of python tk will be installed as a dep, but that's because the default gui for python is "tkinter", which requires tk. To the best of my knowledge we have no packages that have both tk and tcl _optional_ functionality. If you find an exception, though, then we'll probably go ahead and separate tcltk into tcl and tk. Until then, though...
ill reopen as soon as i have some more examples (even if i have to make & submit ebuilds myself :x)