Bug 5420 – the USE variable 'tcltk' *should* be 2 variables, 'tcl' and 'tk'

• Product: Portage Development
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description SpanKY 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) 2002-07-22 18:23:43 UTC]

show me examples of where splitting it achieves your goall

[Comment 2 SpanKY 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 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) 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 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)