Joshua Kinard wrote: > On 10/02/2015 08:44, Dale wrote: >> Michał Górny wrote: >>> Dnia 2015-10-02, o godz. 03:38:16 >>> Daniel Campbell <z...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): >>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA256 >>>> >>>> On 09/30/2015 06:02 AM, Justin (jlec) wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> is no active maintainer for tcltk in Gentoo anymore. >>>>> >>>>> Please stand up or try to remove tcltk support from your packages. >>>>> >>>>> Justin >>>>> >>>> I know next to nothing about tcl/tk but it's been an idle curiosity of >>>> mine. Are there any particularly important packages that run on them? >>> dev-tcltk/expect is sometimes used for modem chats. >>> >>> net-im/tkabber used to be pretty good but I haven't looked at it in ages. >>> >> >> I have these that use tcl or tk: >> >> >> root@fireball / # equery h tk >> * Searching for USE flag tk ... >> [IP-] [ ] app-office/scribus-1.4.4-r1:0 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/R-3.2.2:0 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.7.10:2.7 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-lang/python-3.4.3:3.4 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-python/pillow-2.8.1:0 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-python/pyopengl-3.0.2-r1:0 >> [IP-] [ ] dev-vcs/git-2.4.9:0 >> [IP-] [ ] net-im/pidgin-2.10.11:0 >> [IP-] [ ] sci-electronics/pcb-20140316:0 >> [IP-] [ ] virtual/python-imaging-2:0 >> root@fireball / # equery h tcl >> * Searching for USE flag tcl ... >> [IP-] [ ] dev-db/sqlite-3.8.10.2:3 >> [IP-] [ ] media-gfx/graphviz-2.26.3-r4:0 >> [IP-] [ ] net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.5.4:0 >> [IP-] [ ] net-im/pidgin-2.10.11:0 >> [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/db-4.8.30-r2:4.8 >> root@fireball / # > tcl/tk support should remain if at all possible, especially in Python. TCL is > the base language, and well-entrenched in some really niche areas, like > eggdrop > bot scripting and the like. IIRC, everything in TCL is effectively a string, > and it's very much an event-driven language via the use of "binds". > > Tk is for creating cross-platform GUIs using TCL, and Python people have > likely > encountered Tk as "Tkinter", Python's wrapper around Tk for creating > cross-platform Python GUIs (like gitk). >
I recall that at least one, maybe more, needed those flags to install. At least it did at the time. I think, key word think, pcb and maybe scribus is in that category. I'm not real sure on the others. Generally, if something is required like that, I just set it in make.conf for everything. If it causes a problem, I disable it in package.use for that package. The biggest reason for the post is to let them know that at least one lowly user has those packages that use it. Honestly, I have no idea what it does or what function it adds, until your post anyway. I just followed what portage told me. If support for it drops, I'll just try to adjust to it. If a package must have it and won't build without it, then I can post here or b.g.o. and either that package has to go the same way as tk and/or tcl or someone will do some fixes so that they can be back in the tree again. Either way, it will work out. Dale :-) :-) P. S. I'm getting a error message on your OpenPGP. I get this: "Error - No valid armored OpenPGP data block found". If that is caused by something on your end, may want to look into it.
