Bug 149202 – media-libs/gdk-pixbuf doesn't need gnome

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 7693
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gert Wollny 2006-09-26 11:21:12 UTC]

the gnome dependency by gdk-pixbuf should be set by a USE-flag

[Comment 1 Gert Wollny 2006-09-26 11:22:09 UTC]

Created attachment 98155 [details, diff]
A patch against the latest ebuild, to introduce the gnome use flag

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-26 11:26:02 UTC]

Which part of this comment you did not understand?

<snip>
# We need gnome-libs here, else gnome support do not get compiled into
# gdk-pixbuf (the GnomeCanvasPixbuf library )
</snip>

Plus, adding a use flag without changing compile in any way is plain wrong and produces just automagic dependencies -> bad.

[Comment 3 Gert Wollny 2006-09-26 11:50:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> # We need gnome-libs here, else gnome support do not get compiled into
> # gdk-pixbuf (the GnomeCanvasPixbuf library )
Why would I want this if I say I don't want gnome(-1.4) support?  I thought that's the point of USE flags, to tune the systems to your needs. BTW: gtk-perl has the use flag, also needs gdk-pixbuf, and compiles just fine without  the  GnomeCanvasPixbuf library.

> Plus, adding a use flag without changing compile in any way is plain wrong and
> produces just automagic dependencies -> bad.
Hint taken, and it's not too difficult to change this. Besides if the dependencies are broken "revdep-rebuild" would take care of this like it does in so many cases after upgrading the system.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-26 12:56:21 UTC]

Comment on attachment 98155 [details, diff]
A patch against the latest ebuild, to introduce the gnome use flag

Automagic dependencies suck...

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-26 13:00:29 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Besides if the
> dependencies are broken "revdep-rebuild" would take care of this like it does
> in so many cases after upgrading the system.

Oh no? Automagic dependencies are plain not acceptable, period.
 

[Comment 6 Mart Raudsepp 2006-09-28 05:29:31 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > # We need gnome-libs here, else gnome support do not get compiled into
> > # gdk-pixbuf (the GnomeCanvasPixbuf library )
> Why would I want this if I say I don't want gnome(-1.4) support?

Then the question becomes, why do you need the gdk-pixbuf package?
>=gtk+-2.0 provides a modern gdk-pixbuf library that doesn't depend on anything much more than glib.

[Comment 7 Gert Wollny 2006-09-28 06:20:44 UTC]

Gtk-Perl depends on gtk-1.2 and gdk-pixbuf. 

[Comment 8 Mart Raudsepp 2006-09-28 07:03:53 UTC]

What package in portage needs gtk-perl that you need?

I'll try to look into having packages not need the old gtk1 based gtk-perl module at some point.

If you need gtk-perl for your own (not as a dep), then there's gtk2-perl and CPAN.

[Comment 9 Leonardo Boshell (RETIRED) 2006-09-28 14:00:52 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7693 ***