Does Portage support USE flag dependancies on package deps?

zedoo · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 39

Hi,

probably noone figures what I mean:

I want to install a Package A which depends on Package B. Further than that, it requires B to be compiled with a specific use-flag, say U.
Imagine neither A nor B was merged. Does emerging A automatically set U when merging B?

The question arises from a this example that happened to me yesterday:

#emerge -av skype

asked me to also merge qt4, full of pain I accepted and read the World Climate report while qt was endlessly compiling.

Then merging skype finally, it exits telling me to recompile qt4 with "accessibility and dbus" flags set, skype with "qt-static".
I really would have liked portage to set this for me when emerging qt4... (this is nicely spoken, I really got angry..)

Is this a known quirk with portage (can't imagine...)? Is this a flaw in the skype ebuild?

What did I do wrong?

Thanks, Felix

Genone · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject:

Doesn't exist yet, it's however aa long standing feature request.

Arfrever · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

Genone · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:59 pm Post subject:

zedoo · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2005 Posts: 39

Is it that

a) the USE dependencies for a package that the to-be-installed package depends on are available but not interpreted

or

b) the USE dependencies are not part of ebuilds?

Since emerge notified me to remerge qt with a specific use-flag, i guess the data is available, but just isn't inspected at merge time, right?

Genone · Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 1:58 am Post subject: