Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 16:13:00
Message-Id: 40A24BF8.7090708@skylineaero.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] /etc/make.profile/use.defaults by Pieter Van den Abeele
1 Pieter Van den Abeele wrote:
2 >
3 > On 12 May 2004, at 17:44, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
4 >
5 >> But they are only 'scheduled for installation' if the USE flag is
6 >> activated. The '--emptytree' flag gets emerge in some weird 'chicken
7 >> and egg' situation. With '--emptytree' set, emerge should assume
8 >> nothing is installed. If nothing is installed, then tcl and tk aren't
9 >> installed and the 'tcltk' USE flag shouldn't be auto-activated.
10 >
11 >
12 > true, unless of course tcl and tk are in the world file, or some other
13 > installed package depends on both, and therefore causes the tcltk use
14 > flag to be triggered.
15 > but it should certainly not auto-enable the USE flag (if it isn't
16 > enabled specifically) because the current system has it enabled.
17 > --emptytree should assume nothing is installed
18
19 I don't think tcl or tk being in the world file would/should affect anything
20 while '--emptytree' is in use. Also, I think that the only thing that depends on
21 tcl or tk in the xfree dependency tree is python, and that's with the 'tcltk'
22 USE flag. I believe this is a Portage bug.
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