Take a look at x11-wm/compiz-fusion-0.6.0 ebuild. There is this line in DEPEND: >=x11-themes/emerald-themes-0.5.2 However, x11-wm/emerald is not pulled by compiz-fusion nor by x11-themes/emerald-themes. Why would the user install emerald-themes but not emerald itself? Is there any real need to install emerald-themes but not emerald, as part of compiz-fusion meta-ebuild? [now some slightly off-topic questions] In past, when we had beryl, users could chose among emerald, heliodor and aquamarine. Now I see the last two are not available on portage, so I guess they are unsupported/deprecated, but I'm not sure. Does someone have an explanation? Why I asked this here? Because, based on the answer, we can conclude if emerald is optional or not to compiz-fusion.
(In reply to comment #0) > However, x11-wm/emerald is not pulled by compiz-fusion nor by > x11-themes/emerald-themes. Kindly read the x11-themes/emerald-themes better.
DEPEND="x11-wm/emerald" Hum... yeah, true. Sorry. But let me explain why this happened. I had beryl previously installed here, as well as emerald{,-themes}-0.2.1. Then I've added all compiz-fusion-related packages to package.keywords. Then I ran "emerge -av compiz-fusion". Portage showed me it was going to emerge x11-themes/emerald-themes-0.5.2, but showed nothing about x11-themes/emerald. Thus, I thought it was not a dependency. I don't know if emerald-0.2.1 is compatible with compiz-fusion. But, if compiz-fusion asks specifically for emerald-themes-0.5.2, then I think either compiz-fusion ebuild or emerald-themes ebuild should depend on >=x11-wm/emerald-0.5.2. On the other hand, although emerald is nice, it is not a dependency for compiz-fusion, since gtk-window-decorator is already shipped with x11-wm/compiz package. So I suggest to either remove the dependency on emerald-themes from compiz-fusion ebuild or add a versioned emerald to emerald-themes DEPEND.
We don't care about ebuilds removed from the tree, sorry.
(In reply to comment #3) > We don't care about ebuilds removed from the tree, sorry. Sorry? emerald was not removed from the tree. And I'm talking about both emerald and compiz{,-fusion}, which are on the tree now. Well, whenever <=emerald-0.2.1 gets removed, then it wouldn't make any difference.
