Bugzilla Bug 198381

I wonder why these utilities are not installed (they are in the same 'malloc'
dir of the glibc sources as mtrace, which is installed).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

it's because both utilities need the gd package in order to build

vapier: can we have them, behind USE=gd please?
i want the tools as well.

USE=gd has been added, but the user has to do `emerge gd` first ... i'm not
going to add the gd package to *DEPEND

(In reply to comment #3)
> USE=gd has been added,

Thanks!

> but the user has to do `emerge gd` first ... i'm not
> going to add the gd package to *DEPEND

Hmm, why not? I mean - conditionally, of course:

     gd? ( media-libs/gd )

It is nice to add fancy new use flags to ebuilds but please could you plan
those changes to do all of them at the same time? Especially the really small
changes.
It is the second time in a few days that I have to rebuild glibc for a small
change in the use flags and please remember that many people run gentoo also on
small hardware...
Yes you could reply that I could omit the -N to ignore changes in use flags,
ok, but it is boring to check every time if changes in ebuilds are relevant or
not so it is still a pain in the ass. :-)
I appreciate the work you do so I'm not really complaining, but still it is
something I think that should be said since it is a very small thing to do
(like applying the change to the ~ version of the package...). :-)

Thanks and please don't hate me for this :-)

Personally, I would choose to create separate ebuilds for tools contained in
glibc which depend on other non-system packages. This way, those who want
memusage{,stat} can install them. The fact that they are packaged together by
upstream doesn't mean that these should belong to same package.

Sorry for abusing this bug for general issue, but I would also prefer splitting
many other packages (like mysql, to mysql-client and mysql-server). USE flags
are great for selecting optional features, but it is abuse to use them to
select separate programs which are conceptually different things.

what happened to those scripts? I used to have them couple months ago and now,
after few glibc updates they're gone. I have gd flag for glibc set and
media-libs/gd installed.

Same question here. I just noticed they are gone from my system as well.