Bug 284057 – media-sound/amarok-utils is unneccessary, should be removed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description James Broadhead 2009-09-08 00:20:34 UTC]

amarok-2.2_beta1 is out (known as amarok_2.1.180 in the tarball). 

More importantly, they aren't accepting bug reports for 2.1 any more, so we should add 2.2 asap. 

I tried using the current ebuild, with the following changes: 
- Rename ebuild to to amarok-2.1.180.ebuild
- Change fetch url. s/stable/unstable
but it failed to build. I don't have the time/experience to troubleshoot atm. 

If someone's writing an ebuild for this, will they have a think about why media-sound/amarok-utils exists? It looks as though it's the same ebuild as amarok, but with a one-line change. Surely BUILD_UTILITIES can be controlled by a USE flag, and we could just have a single ebuild. (Just a thought).

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2009-09-08 00:50:51 UTC]

amarok-2.1.80 is already in the kde-testing overlay.

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=commit;h=b04a09fa5f499f58b603b81dc5cde2270f7787b3

As this is a beta release, I'll leave it in the overlay for now.

[Comment 2 James Broadhead 2009-09-08 02:33:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> amarok-2.1.80 is already in the kde-testing overlay.

Awesome. My previous comment about amarok-utils stands however. I'll change the bug title to reflect. 

Longer version:
It's a messy duplication of an ebuild, for a single flag. This should be handled by USE flags. (eg. USE=player -utilities)

[Comment 3 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2009-09-08 09:21:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > amarok-2.1.80 is already in the kde-testing overlay.
> 
> Awesome. My previous comment about amarok-utils stands however. I'll change the
> bug title to reflect. 
> 
> Longer version:
> It's a messy duplication of an ebuild, for a single flag. This should be
> handled by USE flags. (eg. USE=player -utilities)

amarok has been split in amarok and amarok-utils. Your reasoning would also apply to all apps in each of the kde tarballs, but we've opted a long time to introduce them and recently to only support split ebuilds.
Although I haven't splitted the ebuilds myself, I've been bumping them and it seems some people might be interested just in the utils.

[Comment 4 James Broadhead 2009-09-08 13:34:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> amarok has been split in amarok and amarok-utils. Your reasoning would also
> apply to all apps in each of the kde tarballs, but we've opted a long time to
> introduce them and recently to only support split ebuilds.
> Although I haven't splitted the ebuilds myself, I've been bumping them and it
> seems some people might be interested just in the utils.

Ah - fiar enough. I didn't know that was how it worked. 

Still, the situation where someone only wanted amarok-utils and not amarok is covered by my example with USE="-player utilities" 

[Comment 5 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2009-10-04 04:56:50 UTC]

I'm closing this bug as amarok-2.2 has been put in the tree (original purpose of the bug) and as we won't be merging the ebuilds again - therefore WONTFIX.