Bug 199705

Summary:	dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p110-r2 has automagic dependency over sys-libs/db
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Ruby Team <ruby>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-11-19 22:04:21 UTC

Just updated from db 4.5 to 4.6, removing 4.5, and found I needed to rebuild ruby because the dbm extension uses sys-libs/db automagically (no dep in the ebuild).

Please add a berkdb USE flag to disable it.

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Richard Brown (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-12-23 17:41:42 UTC

Fixed in dev-lang/ruby-1.8.6_p111-r1