The LyX ebuild depends on app-text/xpdf app-text/gv But it doesn't actually need these programs. They are viewers, and any old ps/pdf viewers will do in their place. In fact, no viewer is really REQUIRED to use LyX. There are lots of viewers/translators for various file formats that are not listed as LyX requirements. For example,The default viewer for html is mozilla, but mozilla is not required to use LyX - any html browser will do (or no browser at all, if you don't plan to make html files). I think the above requirements should be removed, or replaced with virtual/pdfviewer, virtual/psviewer or something like that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge lyx Actual Results: gv and xpdf are merged, then lyx Expected Results: only lyx should be merged
printing herd: any thoughts about it? I personally think such virtuals are useful. For example, lyx detects acroread, gv, ghostview and xpdf for PDF previewer, and gv and ghostview for PS previewer. (We may add app-text/gpdf to virtual/pdfviewer, and app-text/pspresent and app-text/ggv to virtual/psviewer)
i like the idea.
even more worse ! emerge xpdf installs openmotif which (for me) is an expansive build. But strange - a qpkg -q openmotif shows neither one program in need ! Also equery depgraph xpdf - nothing !! But emerge xpdf => 1.[N openmotif-x.y.z] !!! On the other hand . who is running lyx does usually have a runnig X. And there are a lot more dependencies for that. Also strange - qpkg -q gv on my system does not show one programm i have installed (lyx of course - but gv was there before). But it was installed as dependency of anything. Bugs ??? I would agree in putting both of them into a virtual requirement.
so we just need someone to do the work ;D
I'll do this then ;-)
Fixed in CVS.
