-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > 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. Ivan, from my personal experience I find your advice to be highly important. It would be beneficial to everyone if we knew the dependencies before emerging from portage.I highly suggest sending a message on gentoo-dev@gentoo.org (confirm this). I really do support this.
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