[gentoo-dev] gdk-pixbuf problem possible solution.

[Stefano Peluchetti]

I don't know if the problem was already discussed here, but i want to 
propose a possible solution. The problem is that gnome related stuff 
requires gdk-pixbuf to be compiled with gnome (gnome-libs) support.
But i think the problem is not in the gdk-pixbuf ebuild. In fact you 
could use a optional gnome support in gdk-pixbuf with use value. Later, 
looking in /var/db/pck/...../RDEPEND and USE you could easily see the 
REAL package dependency. So the gnome ebuild should look if gdk-pixbuf 
was compiled with or without gnome-libs support, and require it to be 
re-emerged with gnome support if necessary.
Looking to RDEPEND and USE files could also easily solve two other 
problem: re-emerging packages that depend on a library when it is 
upgraded / unmerged or unmerge these packages when they can't be 
compiled without the package that has been unmerged.
One last suggestion: i thing it should be easy to implement, and very 
usefull, to see what use value are involved in meging a specific package 
(and if they are included (ex: gnome) or excluded (ex: -avi)  ).
Bye

Stefano Peluchetti