fontconfig (at least since ebuild 2.1-r1) have a strange dependency on ed (>=sys-apps/ed-0.2). ldd /usr/bin/fc-list ; ldd /usr/bin/fc-cache does not report such depency This binaries still works fine after unmerging sys-apps/ed Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -p fontconfig (after a stage1) or 1. qpkg -q ed -g sys-apps (on a working system, ed is the second package) Expected Results: emerge fontconfig after a stage1 should not merge ed (I prefer vi, and won't use ed ;). The last line is the one that may be incorrect # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-libs/fontconfig/fontconfig-2.1-r1.ebuild,v 1.18 2003/11/01 09:43:54 seemant Exp $ inherit debug eutils S="${WORKDIR}/fcpackage.${PV/\./_}/fontconfig" DESCRIPTION="A library for configuring and customizing font access." HOMEPAGE="http://freedesktop.org/" SRC_URI="http://pdx.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/releases/fcpackage. ${PV/\./_}.tar.gz" LICENSE="fontconfig" SLOT="1.0" KEYWORDS="x86 alpha ppc sparc mips hppa arm amd64" # Seems like patches in freetype-2.1.2-r2 fixes bug #10028 DEPEND=">=media-libs/freetype-2.1.2-r2 >=dev-libs/expat-1.95.3 >=sys-apps/ed-0.2"
DEPEND means it's a compile time dependency. RDPEND means it's a run-time dependency. So yes, you can remove ed after compiling fontconfig.
well, Theres no RDEPEND listed in fontconfig, so DEPEND="RDEPEND" in this case.
spider's right
and I guess the other point of unclarity, which both spyderous and the bug reporter raised, is: why is ed even a DEPEND for fontconfig?
well, I'd guess that its a Makefile that uses it. Consider also the sed dependencies (Version specific due to how sed is called) to be moved to DEPEND != RDEPEND here.
unmerging ed, unmerging fontconfig, removing the ed dependency in fontconfig ebuild and re-emerging fontconfig just works fine... Mozilla and XFree seems to run unaffected.
i think it was some relic from earlier ebuilds & removed it from 2.2.2