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From: Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>
To: Seemant Kulleen <seemant@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:49:07
Message-Id: 200308171349.05247.luke-jr@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk by Seemant Kulleen
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4 Unless there are Tcl-specific features for an app, why depend on it at all? Tk
5 depends on Tcl, that's fine. Let Tk's dependency pull it in. Why do Tk-based
6 programs need to be aware of what Tk depends on?
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8 On Sunday 17 August 2003 08:08 am, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
9 > This has come up before, and I still wish to voice against it. Like I
10 > said to Mike (vapier/spanky) in a previous post, and what msterret and I
11 > are working on fixing through the tree is:
12 >
13 > tcltk? ( X? ( blah ) )
14 >
15 > which is more accurate. By separating them you run into this error
16 > case:
17 >
18 > USE="-tcl tk"
19 >
20 > except that tk needs tcl. And once upon a time they actually were
21 > separate. I put them together because every ebuild that had a tk dep in
22 > it was doing:
23 >
24 > tcl? ( tcl ) tk? ( tk )
25 >
26 > which is just silly really.
27 >
28 > My 2 cents,
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