Bug 543452

Summary:	gnome-base/librsvg unconditionally pulls dev-lang/vala and dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nico Baggus <mlspamcb>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nico Baggus 2015-03-15 20:42:02 UTC

[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common-1.42.0 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-libs/vala-common-0.26.2 
[ebuild     U ] gnome-base/librsvg-2.40.8 [2.40.6] USE="tools -introspection -vala" ABI_X86="(64) (-32) (-x32)" 

This is strange...

Comment 1 Nico Baggus 2015-03-16 00:56:43 UTC

As far as i can see one of 3 went wrong:
1) the flags are not honored 
2) the use-flags should have been removed
3) the use-flags have a different meaning

Comment 2 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-03-16 14:56:00 UTC

(In reply to Nico Baggus from comment #1)
> As far as i can see one of 3 went wrong:
> 1) the flags are not honored 
> 2) the use-flags should have been removed
> 3) the use-flags have a different meaning

4) vala-common ≠ vala. And gobject-introspection-common ≠ gobject-introspection.

The *-common packages are collections of m4 macros and template makefiles which are required at build time for any package where
a) the package can use vala or gobject-introspection (optionally or not); and
b) the package is based on the GNU autotools build infrastructure; and
c) the ebuild applies patches to configure.ac or Makefile.am files.

At least read the package descriptions (vala-common says "Build infrastructure for packages that use Vala") before reporting bugs ;)