when trying to update calibre, I discovered the ebuild for new verion includes udisks as dependency, which in turns, triggers a lot of dependencies: emerge -tp calibre These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] app-text/calibre-0.8.26 [0.8.25] 36,900 kB [ebuild N ] sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r1 USE="nls -debug -doc -remote-access" 704 kB [nomerge ] sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r1 USE="nls -debug -doc -remote-access" [nomerge ] sys-auth/polkit-0.102 USE="gtk introspection nls pam -debug -doc -examples -kde" [ebuild N ] gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.101-r1 USE="introspection -doc -examples" 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-auth/pambase-20101024 USE="consolekit cracklib sha512 -debug -gnome-keyring -minimal -mktemp -pam_krb5 -pam_ssh -passwdqc (-selinux)" 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5-r1 USE="pam policykit -debug -doc -test" 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-auth/polkit-0.102 USE="gtk introspection nls pam -debug -doc -examples -kde" 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/pam-0 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.5 USE="berkdb cracklib nls -audit -debug -nis (-selinux) -test -vim-syntax" 1,584 kB [nomerge ] gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.101-r1 USE="introspection -doc -examples" [ebuild N ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.18 0 kB [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gnome-common-2.34.0 0 kB [nomerge ] sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r1 USE="nls -debug -doc -remote-access" [ebuild N ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.73-r1 USE="lvm1 readline static (-clvm) (-cman) (-selinux)" 916 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libatasmart-0.17 USE="-static-libs" 368 kB Total: 12 packages (1 upgrade, 11 new), Size of downloads: 40,470 kB It happens that udisks is not requiered to build calibre, I took of the dependency from the ebuild file: +++ /usr/portage/app-text/calibre/calibre-0.8.26.ebuild 2011-11-14 11:27:34.626629731 -0600 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND} >=dev-python/reportlab-2.1 - sys-fs/udisks" + " DEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND} >=dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc5 emerge -p calibre These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] app-text/calibre-0.8.26 [0.8.25] 36,900 kB calibre builds and runs ok. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: calibre's ebuild triggers a long list of (gnome even) related dependencies that are not requiered to build the package. Neither to execute it. Expected Results: udisk dependency should be optional (eg useword) in order to prevent software I don't requiere to be installed on my system I do use calibre to access my B&N nook. I mount the nook with the following line in /etc/fstab: grep nook /etc/fstab /dev/disk/by-id/usb-B_N_NOOK_372041756775-0:0 /media/nook vfat noauto,users,defaults 0 0 Really, udisks is not requiered (although useful) to install/run calibre
Thanks, I've added a udisks USE flag so you can disable the dependency now.
