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From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:15:04
Message-Id: 20030817151526.056f2f54.spider@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk by "Robin H. Johnson"
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2 On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:32:28 -0700
3 "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o> wrote:
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5 > Two possible solutions for this:
6 > 1. Have the 'tk' USE flag imply the 'tcl' USE flag. This would cause
7 > the'tcl? ( tcl ) tk? ( tk )' example to resolve correctly.
8 > 2. the ebuilds doing 'tcl? ( tcl ) tk? ( tk )' are quite clearly
9 > wrong, as tk is the graphical toolkit for tcl, ergo they should have
10 > 'IUSE="tk"' and that would pull in tcl as wel
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13 We have that with gtk and gtk2, and users don't understand it. We are at
14 about 1 bug report / week for that due to the nesting (one turn on/off
15 and one prefer-gtk2)
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17 I'd still prefer that the python ebuild was fixed to be:
18 DEPEND="tcltk? ( X? ( >=dev-lang/tk-8.4 )) " instead of breaking it
19 further.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: split tcltk USE flag to tcl and tk Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>