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+DIST recoll-1.25.12.tar.gz 2840381 BLAKE2B 65e7792df2c18b9a7721d78fab43b547f1b7ff983dc120673e6271d089946acc79f5f96da1726073a9452affe0aec2519eb0b6762fb5136511bc56721cc2c793 SHA512 542b2e0c6e59ae01d13111cb5b05deda3b2bb29646ca8f55294e5dc923359bf098fc63dc18f81a9b61a5f7ec1d2a3f7a52d434cab3f49dd039b17b0031fe42a0
diff --git a/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.25.12.ebuild b/app-misc/recoll/recoll-1.25.12.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{5,6,7} )
+
+inherit eutils linux-info python-single-r1 qmake-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="A personal full text search package"
+HOMEPAGE="https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/"
+SRC_URI="https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
+
+IUSE="camelcase chm doc +inotify qt5 python session +spell"
+REQUIRED_USE="session? ( inotify )
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
+
+CDEPEND="
+	chm? ( dev-python/pychm[${PYTHON_USEDEP}] )
+	dev-libs/xapian:=
+	sys-libs/zlib:=
+	virtual/libiconv
+	qt5? (
+		dev-qt/qtcore:5
+		dev-qt/qtgui:5
+		dev-qt/qtprintsupport:5
+		dev-qt/qtwebkit:5
+	)
+	session? (
+		inotify? (
+			  x11-libs/libSM
+			  x11-libs/libICE
+			  x11-libs/libX11
+		)
+	)
+	spell? ( app-text/aspell )
+	${PYTHON_DEPS}
+"
+
+DEPEND="
+	${CDEPEND}
+	qt5? ( dev-qt/linguist-tools:5 )
+"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	${CDEPEND}
+	app-arch/unzip
+"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	if has_version "<app-misc/recoll-1.20"; then
+		einfo "Installing ${PV} over an 1.19 index is possible,"
+		einfo "but there have been small changes in the way"
+		einfo "compound words are indexed. So it is best to reset"
+		einfo "the index. The best method to reset the index is to"
+		einfo "quit all recoll programs and delete the index directory"
+		einfo "rm -rf ~/.recoll/xapiandb, then start recoll or recollindex."
+	fi
+	if use inotify; then
+		CONFIG_CHECK="~INOTIFY_USER"
+		check_extra_config
+	fi
+	python-single-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	python_fix_shebang filters
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	use qt5 && export QMAKE="$(qt5_get_bindir)/qmake"
+
+	econf \
+		$(use_enable camelcase) \
+		$(use_enable chm python-chm) \
+		$(use_enable session x11mon) \
+		$(use_enable qt5 qtgui) \
+		$(use_enable qt5 webkit) \
+		$(use_with inotify) \
+		$(use_enable python python-module) \
+		$(use_with spell aspell) \
+		--without-fam \
+		--enable-recollq
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake STRIP="$(type -P true)" DESTDIR="${D}" install
+
+	# html docs should be placed in /usr/share/doc/${PN}/html
+	use doc && dodoc -r "${ED}"/usr/share/recoll/doc/.
+	rm -r "${ED}/usr/share/recoll/doc" || die
+	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	einfo "In order to extract the full functionality of "
+	einfo "recoll, the following packages should be installed "
+	einfo "to get the corresponding document support."
+
+	optfeature "XML based documents support"    "dev-libs/libxslt[python] dev-libs/libxml2[python]"
+	optfeature "PDF files support"              app-text/poppler
+	optfeature "PDF files with OCR support"     app-text/tesseract
+	optfeature "MS Word files support"          app-text/antiword
+	optfeature "Wordperfect files support"      "app-text/libwpd[tools]"
+	optfeature "Lyx files support"              app-office/lyx
+	optfeature "CHM files support"              dev-python/pychm
+	optfeature "GNU Info files support"         sys-apps/texinfo
+	optfeature "RAR archives support"           dev-python/rarfile
+	optfeature "7zip archives support"          dev-python/pylzma
+	optfeature "iCalendar files support"        dev-python/icalendar
+	optfeature "Postscript files support"       app-text/pstotext
+	optfeature "RTF files support"              app-text/unrtf
+	optfeature "TeX files support"              dev-text/detex
+	optfeature "DVI files support"              virtual/tex-base
+	optfeature "DJVU files support"             app-text/djvu
+	optfeature "tags in audio files support"    media-libs/mutagen
+	optfeature "tags in image files support"    media-libs/exiftool
+	optfeature "Midi karaoke files support"     dev-python/chardet
+}