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On Sunday 17 August 2003 09.55, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> I'd like comments on splitting the tcltk USE flag into 'tcl' and 'tk' |
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> USE flags. |
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> My primary motivation for this is that I am putting together many more |
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> servers lately, and I need tcl on them, but I don't want X there. |
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> doing 'USE=tcltk emerge python' pulls in xfree due to |
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> tcltk? ( ...tk... ) in the python ebuild. |
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> Advantages: |
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> 1. More accurately reflects what a package uses, and allows for better |
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> customization. |
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> Disadvantages: |
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> 2. Changing existing ebuilds to the new style |
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> 3. Users with tcltk have to update their USE flags. |
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> I am more than willing to bear the brunt of the work of updating the |
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> ebuilds if there are no objections to this. |
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Wouldn't it be nicer to use overloading on use flags, so that -X took |
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priority. ie if -X never build X aware options of any packages. |
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/tony |
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