Bug 950680 – kde-apps/akonadi-config and kde-apps/akonadi don't check each others database USE-flags

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: UNCONFIRMED ---

[Description J. Roeleveld 2025-03-06 07:40:51 UTC]

kde-apps/akonadi-config does not check if selected database(s) matches flags for kde-apps/akonadi

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set USE flags for kde-apps/akonadi to "-mysql postgres"
2. Install akonadi (or upgrade system)
3.
Actual Results:  
kde-apps/akonadi-config  wants to install with use-flags "mysql -postgres"

Expected Results:  
kde-apps/akonadi-config  complains about a mismatch

With a mismatch between the different parts, functionality will not work as expected.

[Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner 2025-03-06 17:15:55 UTC]

It's because the flags are gone from akonadi, configuration moved to akonadi-config.

You should have received a nice explanatory ewarn message from akonadi-config.

[Comment 2 J. Roeleveld 2025-03-06 17:19:18 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #1)
> It's because the flags are gone from akonadi, configuration moved to
> akonadi-config.

Why was this not hanbdled with an automatic adjustment in the package.use files like other renames?

> You should have received a nice explanatory ewarn message from
> akonadi-config.

I caught this earlier because I was surprised an updated wanted to install mariadb and its dependencies.

[Comment 3 Andreas Sturmlechner 2025-03-06 17:23:01 UTC]

Because there was no rename.

[Comment 4 J. Roeleveld 2025-03-06 18:32:48 UTC]

(In reply to Andreas Sturmlechner from comment #3)
> Because there was no rename.

I think for this, a news-item would be a better option instead of an ewarn.
With the amount of messages at the end of an upgrade, it gets lost in the bundle.
And if this is not immediately spotted, it's gone when the console is closed.