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On Thursday 26 March 2009 11:14:38 Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> the sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild contains |
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> DEPEND="${RDEPEND} |
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> doc? ( app-text/texi2html virtual/texi2dvi ) |
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> python? ( dev-lang/swig[python] ) |
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> octave? ( dev-lang/swig[octave] )" |
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> |
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> What does dev-lang/swig[python] mean? |
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> Since dev-lang/swig/swig-1.3.39 does not |
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> use the useflags 'python', etc, anymore, |
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> emerging sci-libs/mathgl tries to downgrade to |
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> swig-1.3.36 which gives conflict elsewhere. |
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> |
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> Do I really need to mask >swig-1.3.36 or |
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> is sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild too old? |
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> Many thanks for a hint. |
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> (Should I generate a bug report?) |
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Yes, this is a bug and should be reported. |
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if you need it installed right now, copy the ebuild to your overlay, edit out |
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the wrong USE flag specifiers in DEPEND, digest the ebuild and install. Or you |
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could walk for the devs to fix it and resync |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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