On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 02:23:08PM -0500, Daniel Barkalow wrote
>
> > > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > > [ebuild R ] x11-libs/cairo-1.2.4 USE="X png -directfb -doc -glitz
> > > -svg (-pdf%)" 0 kB
> > >
> > > Oops... note the "(-pdf%)". This option is simply not allowed for
> > > Cairo on my system. I threw in "--skipfirst" into the emerge command,
> > > and it seems to be working so far. But back to my main problem... how
> > > do I reconcile gtk+ and Cairo?
> >
> > Actually, the cairo ebuild now unconditionally enables pdf support; the
> > USE flag is not allowed because it is no longer possible to disable pdf
> > support. (Portage doesn't have a way to express the differences between
> > something not being a USE flag because it is unsupported and because it is
> > automatic, but if you look in the ebuild, you'll find that it's using
> > "--enable-pdf")
> >
> > So gtk+ should be happy once you re-emerge cairo even without changing use
> > flags.
>
> So why does the flag show up at all when I do an "emerge -pv"?
Your currently installed package came from an ebuild which had it
available (and not set), so it's reporting that currently the USE flags
include "-pdf", and rebuilding will cause that to go away.
-Daniel
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