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Bug 5420 - the USE variable 'tcltk' *should* be 2 variables, 'tcl' and 'tk'
Summary: the USE variable 'tcltk' *should* be 2 variables, 'tcl' and 'tk'
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2002-07-22 16:45 UTC by SpanKY
Modified: 2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
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Description SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-07-22 16:45:45 UTC
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 ?
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-07-22 18:23:43 UTC
show me examples of where splitting it achieves your goall
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-07-22 21:23:58 UTC
ill find some concrete examples, but i just dont like dev-lang/tk being on my 
server since its not useful
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-07-22 21:29:23 UTC
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 :])
Comment 4 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-07-22 23:27:24 UTC
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...
Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-07-22 23:45:13 UTC
ill reopen as soon as i have some more examples (even if i have to make & 
submit ebuilds myself :x)