As far as I can see, packages using python_tkinter_exists are candidate to EAPI=2 porting so that instead of dying at build, the proper dep would be stated (python[tk]). HTH, Diego
I've fixed packages maintained by python herd: app-editors/leo dev-python/pythong media-sound/lilycomp (no herd ;) net-im/msnlib For the rest of the packages, I filed bugs which are dependencies of this one.
Filed other bugs as dependencies of this, which contain proposed patches converting some other ebuild to EAPI 2. These ebuilds use python_tkinter_exists function from "python" eclass or distutils_python_tkinter function from "distutils" eclass. After applying proposed patches, above mentioned functions are no longer needed (except not -r1 ebuilds for skencil and msnlib).
Hello, I'm not much into this. I believe dev-lang/python is a bit tricky wrt use deps. I've stated this in -dev before. What I suggest while this issue is not worked around, is to use both checks (use deps and eclass functions) to check whether is true that the current active python version implements the use flag. Just to refresh my concerns about this, when people have multiple versions of pythons installed in their systems, use deps checks are not reliable, meaning that the active version could be missing the flags if previous versions have it set. Consider this when python-2.6 gets unmasked. Best regards,
*** Bug 261757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
There is no usage of python_tkinter_exists in tree, so I consider this fixed.
