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On Saturday 09 July 2011 11:28:19 William Hubbs did opine thusly: |
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> Hi Alan and all, |
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> On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:19:46PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > easy. |
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> > Two USE flags: gtk2 and gtk3 |
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> > in ebuild: |
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> > |
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> > DEPEND=" |
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> > |
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> > gtk2? (x11-libs/gtk+:2) |
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> > gtk3? (x11-libs/gtk+:3) |
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> > |
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> > " |
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> This doesn't account for all possible use flag settings. If I had |
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> neither flag set, neither version of gtk would be installed, or if I |
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> had both set, both versions would be installed. You can't just |
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> choose a default in src_configure; you have to worry about it in |
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> the dependencies as well. If you don't, you can force installation |
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> of a package the user doesn't need or not install something they |
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> do need. |
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Of course my example wasn't complete and needs fleshing out. |
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It wasn't an ebuild-writing tutorial, it was an example of how easy it |
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really is to continue supporting both toolkits in the ebuild. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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