sys-apps/util-linux configure.ac has automagic dependency on ncurses and the ebuild currently forces it to be available and always on. Please consider making it a ncurses USE flag, so ncurses can be avoided on an embedded system if it is so desired. I personally am fine with ncurses (for now, that might change), but as I don't think that I need setterm, pg and more tools, I could have easily worked around bug 221939 while getting a smaller image as a bonus. Others might desire to avoid ncurses for really tiny images.
Do you have a patch?
No, not right now. I can't spend work time on creating a patch right now. I worked around it and could work on a patch for util-linux from free time, but that would be low priority work and I have a lot of high priority stuff for packages I actually maintain. There is already everything guarded with HAVE_NCURSES and HAVE_NCURSES_NCURSES_H, so just would need to make sure these are undefined if something like --disable-ncurses is passed to configure
Created attachment 267931 [details, diff] Adds ncurses USE flag to sys-apps/util-linux This patch adds the ncurses USE flag to the sys-apps/util-linux ebuild. Tested on stable x86 with util-linux-2.18-r1.
Comment on attachment 267931 [details, diff] Adds ncurses USE flag to sys-apps/util-linux not entirely correct. your patch orphans USE=unicode usage, and let's ncurses vs ncursesw be auto-detected. the logic probably needs to be: --with-ncurses=$(use ncurses && { use unicode && echo auto || echo yes; } || echo no)
Created attachment 267943 [details, diff] Adds ncurses USE flag to sys-apps/util-linux Thanks for reviewing my previous patch. Ah, you are absolutely correct. This patch uses the logic you suggested. Once again, tested on x86 stable with util-linux-2.18-r1. Just to make sure it's working: USE: ncurses unicode ldd /usr/bin/pg | grep curses libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb76fb000) USE: ncurses -unicode ldd /usr/bin/pg | grep curses libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0xb76ca000) USE: -ncurses -unicode ldd /usr/bin/pg | grep curses ldd: /usr/bin/pg: No such file or directory
well, that patch breaks things too since it missed a \ after the new logic. but i just cleaned that up and committed something that should work. http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-2.19.ebuild?r1=1.3&r2=1.4 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/util-linux/util-linux-9999.ebuild?r1=1.18&r2=1.19
