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Bug 245915 - net-misc/vidalia ebuild should allow to avoid tor installation via USE flag
Summary: net-misc/vidalia ebuild should allow to avoid tor installation via USE flag
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
URL: https://trac.vidalia-project.net/tick...
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Reported: 2008-11-07 01:14 UTC by Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum)
Modified: 2009-11-20 23:01 UTC (History)
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Description Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2008-11-07 01:14:09 UTC
current vidalia ebuild depends on net-misc/tor (RDEPEND),
accordling with vidalia documentation, is possible to use vidalia
with an external tor process (already running on a different host)
using tor directives "ControlPort" and "HashedControlPassword".

So it's useless to install by default tor with vidalia on the same host
when you are going to control an external tor process, this dependency should
be controlled/disabled via a local USE flag (eg: externaltor,notor).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge net-misc/vidalia to control an external tor process
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
net-misc/tor is installed by default

Expected Results:  
net-misc/tor dependency should be controlled/disabled via USE flag
Comment 1 Víctor Ostorga (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-10-31 14:22:24 UTC
Upstream is a bit confusing, they have enabled the use of a remote tor host, and it builds without tor, but documentation says it needs tor >= 0.2.0.34 .

Have you tested if vidalia works _fine_ without tor installed ?
Comment 2 Alessio Cassibba (X-Drum) 2009-11-19 22:04:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Upstream is a bit confusing, they have enabled the use of a remote tor host,
> and it builds without tor, but documentation says it needs tor >= 0.2.0.34 .
> 
> Have you tested if vidalia works _fine_ without tor installed ?
> 

hi, just tested net-misc/vidalia-0.2.6 (locally bumped, 
i removed tor from RDEPEND) with a remote net-misc/tor-0.2.0.35 istance.

I was able to connect/control the remote istance of tor, after setting
properly ControlListenAddress and HashedControlPassword settings on it.
Comment 3 Víctor Ostorga (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-11-20 23:01:08 UTC
Applied to net-misc/vidalia-0.2.6 , thanks for the report