Alexander Skwar wrote: > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: >> On Sunday 25 June 2006 02:06, Mick wrote: >>> [nomerge ] net-ftp/kftpgrabber-0.6.0 USE="arts -debug -xinerama" >>> [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.2-r6 USE="acl alsa arts cups >>> spell ssl tiff -debug -doc -jpeg2k -kdeenablefinal >>> -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -openexr -xinerama >>> -zeroconf" >>> [nomerge ] net-dns/libidn-0.5.15 USE="nls -doc -emacs -java" >>> [ebuild N ] dev-java/java-config-1.2.11-r1 15 kB >> >> This tells you that kftpgrabber depends on kdelibs which depends on >> libidn which depends on java-config. All of those are mandatory >> dependencies so there is not much you can do about it unless you are >> willing to look into development... But java-config is not java so it >> shouldn't be a big deal either. > > On the other hand, he has set USE=-java for libidn (at least), so > why is it pulling in java-config? It doesn't make much sense, does > it? In the libidn ebuild, I find: > > inherit java-pkg > > And that's what pulling in java-config. Is there a way to wrap the > inherit around some "if" statements, so that "inherit java-pkg" is > only "executed" when "java" is set? > > Alexander Skwar Hi, IIRC portage still can't handle USE-flag dependencies, some feature-requests are in Bugzilla. Devs are working though. OT:there're at least two other alt. package managers in development, so lets hope this is for good. HTH.Rumen
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