| Summary: | rep-gtk should obey USE="-gnome" as before | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Gregory P. Smith <greg-gentoo> |
| Component: | New packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 1.2 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | corrected ebuild with conditional gnome support | ||
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Description
Gregory P. Smith
2002-12-21 03:33:59 UTC
Created attachment 6629 [details]
corrected ebuild with conditional gnome support
as that bug tells, removing the gnome support will also break Gnome2 installations where a person has -gnome as a keyword. that bug is this bug, what bug are you referring to ? :) ach DANG I pasted the wrong url. The bug I was referring to is the early case of sub-dependencies failing when gnome support is optional, Ie: USE="-gnome -kde -qt -kde -qtk -X" emerge gnome and it will fail, since rep-gtk is built without gnome. until we can have optional dependencies and forced rebuilds with USE functionality in packages, this, gdk-pixbuf and a few others will be built with Gnome support enabled per default. rep-gtk-0.17-r1 does not obey USE="-gnome". this problem is not fixed. I can attach an updated rep-gtk-0.17-r1.ebuild tonight (its on an inaccessable computer at the moment) if needed. The changes are identical to the ones I made for rep-gtk-0.17 that I already attached below. I think you misread earlier comments, the whole idea is that if we allow gnome to be optional we are gonna get a lot of problems later on in a typical install. In some cases we then choose to not make possibly optional dependencies optional. There are a few more examples of this in the tree (most people never notice). In short : since portage cannot currently impose use flags on dependencies, we cannot fix this right now. I don't know why users who can't decide if they want gnome (emerge gnome) or not (USE="-gnome") are more important than users which don't want gnome. I wanted to emerge sawfish. I don't want gnome. OMG. Why are we having this bug here for two years now without any solution?! --- USE="-gnome -kde -qt -kde -qtk -X" emerge gnome and it will fail, since rep-gtk is built without gnome. --- ^^^ That is not a reason for WONTFIX, that must be a bad joke. Users who put USE="-gnome" in their use flags and then type emerge gnome, are mentally retarded at least. Duh! :-((( |
