maillog: 27/01/2005-20:39:30(+0800): Mike Gardiner types
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 10:04 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> > 
> > After a fresh rsync on a sort-of fresh system:
> > 
> > livecd ~ # emerge -pvt gtk-engines
> > 
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
> > However, I don't want to have gtk+-1.2 installed for no reason at all.
> > As you can see, it is not installed already, and yet, according to
> > the gtk-engines ebuild:
> > 
> > [ -n "${HAS_GTK1}" ] && DEPEND="${DEPEND} >=media-libs/imlib-1.8"
> > 
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
> > 
> > Calculating dependencies  QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: eclass 
> > gtk-engines2
> > QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: eclass gtk-engines2
> > QA Notice: has_version() in global scope: eclass gtk-engines2
> > QA Notice: sed in global scope: x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.2.0
> >  ...done!
> > [ebuild  N    ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.2.0  0 kB 
> > 
> > The gtk-engines2.eclass has a has_version and then sets the HAS_GTK1
> > variable.  This has come up before many times, but is there something in
> > the works that solves this kind of problem? Is this a bug in the eclass,
> > since the message "QA Notice: has_version() in global scope:" sounds
> > like it is a Bad Thingâ and has to be avoided? More use flags maybe?
> > gtk2only, gtk1 or anything to stop this madness? Preventing metadata
> > from being generated for ebuilds that generate "QA Notice"s?
> > 
> 
> See bug http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24439 as well as the
> gentoo-desktop mailing list archives.

Makes me wonder why I didn't search for open bugs this time. My favorite
exercise.

Well, it surely proved that it really is a madness. And I was afraid I
might offend someone.

Thanks for the insight.

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