Re: [gentoo-dev] ATTENTION! Broken builds ahead

[Jason Rhinelander]

I have a question regarding the gtk/gtk2 use flags - I recall a 
discussion recently that, if memory serves, basically said "gtk2 should 
be completely ignored if -gtk is present."

Did I misinterpret this?  Shouldn't USE="-gtk gtk2" be acceptable?  It 
seems to me that "gtk" is used to say "I want gtk support when it is 
optional" and "gtk2" means "When both gtk-1 and gtk-2 support is 
available, use gtk2."  So, to this end, "-gtk gtk2" should mean "if a 
package doesn't require gtk (of any version), don't build it.  If it 
does require gtk, use gtk2 support if possible."

Did I misunderstand the previous discussion, or is the above assumption 
correct?

-- Jason Rhinelander
-- Gossamer Threads, Inc.


Spider wrote:
> Okay,
>    I spoke up a while ago about this, and came with correct and
> suggested syntax for theese problems, but there seems to be a LOT of
> cruft in the tree anyhow.
>
>
> I did some grep for "gtk2"  IUSE statements, and went through them all.
> I'm sad to say that the majority of all ebuilds i found have severe
> logic flaws.
>
> Thats correct, Most of the builds -DONT- work either as they should nor
> as intended.
>
>
> Here is a list of broken ebuilds ( i tried to just get the latest
> version )  , comments on -why- they are broken, and how it should be
> done.
>
> I dont have explicit knowledge about all theese builds, so some may be
> special cases, but far from all are.
>
>
> ATTN DEVS!
>    I want you all who are -responsible- for theese to go through and fix
> this. ASAP.
>
>
>    I could just as well have gone through all theese myself and checked
> in the changes, but noone would learn what they were doing right by me
> just fixing things for them.  Thats why I want the various maintainers
> to have looks at it and fix. This way I hope I will Never have to face
> this problem again.
>
>
> If I find more builds with the same logic flaws in the future, I will
> hard mask said builds and bug the maintainers in private, but this is a
> wide sweep and I grabbed all of those that were on my list, checked and
> signed up here.
>
> If you feel overwhelmed by the stuff you have, I'm sure there are bored
> people around who want a go at cleaning things out, Just say so and it
> will be fixed, we're a community after all.
>
>
> But, I feel like a grumpy old man now after wading through errors and
> bugs (and bugzilla was too slow for me to even be usable, or you would
> have had bugs a plenty there too. Hah, saved you were ;) so do take the
> time to check the list, see what mistakes others have made,
> And Dont Repeat Them.
>
>
> Regards,
>    Spider
>
>
>
>


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