Bug 490330 – dev-libs/libdnet-1.12 should not unconditionally depend on dev-lang/python

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Maxim Kammerer 2013-11-04 01:24:45 UTC]

dev-libs/libdnet-1.12 was built with the following:
USE="-ipv6 -python -static-libs -test" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6"

# cat /var/db/pkg/dev-libs/libdnet-1.12/RDEPEND
>=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-python/python-exec:0/0=[python_targets_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python2_6(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-)]

s/distutils/python-single/ in the ebuild seems to fix the issue, although I have no idea whether that's the right approach (see bug #482146).

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-06 16:13:24 UTC]

I made the included $PYTHON_DEPS depend on whether USE=python is set.

[Comment 2 Maxim Kammerer 2013-11-07 22:07:13 UTC]

Not fixed:

> cat /var/db/pkg/dev-libs/libdnet-1.12/RDEPEND
>=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r2:2.7 dev-lang/python-exec:0/0=[python_targets_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python2_6(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-)]

From /usr/portage/eclass/distutils-r1.eclass:

# Please note that distutils-r1 sets RDEPEND and DEPEND unconditionally
# for you.

[Comment 3 Michał Górny 2013-11-07 22:16:33 UTC]

You're looking for DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL [1].

[1]:http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Python/distutils-r1#DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL

[Comment 4 Maxim Kammerer 2013-11-07 23:11:27 UTC]

Putting DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1 before the inherit line indeed fixes the issue.

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-11-08 15:11:55 UTC]

(In reply to Maxim Kammerer from comment #4)
> Putting DISTUTILS_OPTIONAL=1 before the inherit line indeed fixes the issue.

Added.