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On 07:39 Tue 29 Mar , Brian Harring wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 02:09:51PM +0100, David Morgan wrote: |
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> > How do you specify gtk v2 only using use flags? You can't! |
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> > If something depends on gtk v1 regardless of use flags (by which I mean |
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> > there's no without any gtk or use v2 option), then if you want |
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> > to emerge it you have to have gtk v1. Unless you want to have some sort |
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> > of system where a package would be masked because of your use flags |
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> > (which would get annoying really quickly), but I don't think you are. |
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> That's semantic quibbling. :) |
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> Use flags are conditionals only; hard deps can't be sidestepped. :) |
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> Finer grained control over conditional linkage is the goal, which the |
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> current USE="gtk gtk2" doesn't engender. |
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> > assuming that -gtk |
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> > -gtk1 gtk2 means "disable optional gtk (any version) support, but if gtk |
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> > isn't optional but both versions are supported then use v2" |
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> E'yep. |
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> > |
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Which (unless anyone has any objections) leaves the question of how is this |
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going to get done. |
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use.decs would need to be changed, which is easy enough, but then all |
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the ebuilds affected by this would need modifying. |
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So, either package maintainers would have to do this (which does seem |
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like something that's likely to happen) or 1 person/a few people |
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would have to change all the relevant ebuilds, which would require a lot |
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of work (and requires whoever's doing it to work out which options are |
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applicable to each package). |
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I think the second way is the only way that this'd actually get done, |
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but it requires one or more volunteers. (I'd happily do it, but it's not |
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really possible without being a dev). |
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djm |
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