Bug 2307

Summary:	emerge will ignore USE in some cases.
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Cal Evans <cal>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Cal Evans 2002-05-01 08:21:27 UTC

when EMERGing an ebuild that has a DEPENDS package that conflicts with a USE
variable. EMERGE needs to abort with a warning instead of installing the
unwanted package.

i.e. nmap
nmap requires gtk.  gtk requires X. My make.conf file has USE="-X". Therefore
emerge nmap should about and warn me that it will have to install unwanted
packages before it can install nmap. To override, I could export USE="X" to
resolve the conflict and then re-emerge.

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Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-01 08:24:09 UTC

Does your conf file also have "-gtk"?

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-05-01 08:25:28 UTC

In fact, I know you don't have "-gtk" in your USE string in /etc/make.conf
Please read the USE variable HOWTO document at http://www.gentoo.org/use-howto.html

Comment 3 Cal Evans 2002-05-01 08:42:52 UTC

No, I did not. (Do now) (and I have read the USE document
at:http://www.gentoo.org/doc/use-howto.html)

This doesn't resolve the issue though. I have -X in my USE. emerge does (or at
least can) resolve dependencies before installing.  If a dependency has been
disabled by a USE variable, no matter how deep in the tree, the entire ebuild
should abort with a warning. (IMHO, etc.)

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