Bug 155860 - app-text/antiword wrong dependency on virtual/ghostscript
Bug#: 155860 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: x86
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: minor Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: seemant@gentoo.org Reported By: mad_soft@inbox.ru
Component: Ebuilds
URL: 
Summary: app-text/antiword wrong dependency on virtual/ghostscript
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2006-11-21 08:32 0000
Description:   Opened: 2006-11-21 08:32 0000
User-Agent:       Opera/7.52 (X11; Linux i586; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: 

app-text/antiword has a hard dependency on virtual/ghostscript in ebuild
I think such a dependency must be at least optional, if it needed at all.

Ghostscript doesn't needed for compilation of antiword, and as far as I can 
tell, for operation too. I emerged antiword with --nodeps and it works fine for 
all types of output formats (plain text, PostScript, PDF) without any 
ghostscript installed. I can guess that ghostscript is listed as dependency 
because kantiword script uses gv for rendering PostScript, but, wait a minute, 
gv is not a part of ghostscript, it's standalone package (app-text/gv). And I 
don't use kantiword anyway (USE="-kde") - why then should I fetch and install 
~13M ghostscript?



Reproducible: Always

------- Comment #1 From Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2006-11-21 09:17:35 0000 -------
fixed in portage, thanks.