On Thursday 26 March 2009 11:14:38 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild contains
> DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
> doc? ( app-text/texi2html virtual/texi2dvi )
> python? ( dev-lang/swig[python] )
> octave? ( dev-lang/swig[octave] )"
>
> What does dev-lang/swig[python] mean?
> Since dev-lang/swig/swig-1.3.39 does not
> use the useflags 'python', etc, anymore,
> emerging sci-libs/mathgl tries to downgrade to
> swig-1.3.36 which gives conflict elsewhere.
>
> Do I really need to mask >swig-1.3.36 or
> is sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild too old?
>
> Many thanks for a hint.
> (Should I generate a bug report?)
Yes, this is a bug and should be reported.
if you need it installed right now, copy the ebuild to your overlay, edit out
the wrong USE flag specifiers in DEPEND, digest the ebuild and install. Or you
could walk for the devs to fix it and resync
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
