Hi there. I just happend to emerge evince and, after half an hour got the following error:
18:07:32 (44.99 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/evince-0.6.1.tar.bz2'
saved [1212271/1212271]
* checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...
[ ok ]
* checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...
[ ok ]
* checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...
[ ok ]
* checking evince-0.6.1.tar.bz2 ;-) ...
[ ok ]
* Please re-emerge app-text/poppler-bindings with the gtk USE flag set
!!! ERROR: app-text/evince-0.6.1 failed.
Call stack:
ebuild.sh, line 1626: Called dyn_setup
ebuild.sh, line 701: Called qa_call 'pkg_setup'
ebuild.sh, line 38: Called pkg_setup
evince-0.6.1.ebuild, line 67: Called die
!!! poppler-bindings needs gtk flag set
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
stack if relevant.
I understand why this happend, and I know how to solve it.
My point is: should the RDEPEND and DEPEND syntax in ebuilds be changed
so that this kind of problems can be detected before emerging?
Here's an example. Imagine program A depends on B, and if A is built
with use flag "dvi", then it depends on C to be built with use flag
dvi2. The following could be A's DEPEND:
DEPEND="dvi? ([dvi2 C])
B"
This is just an example, and I'm sure there's a different syntax that
could be more appropriate.
What do you this of it?
Is there any ongoing implementation to solve it in a different way?
Cheers,
Ivan.
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