Bugzilla Bug 155446

The first attached ebuild (and diff) enables optional support of
latex2html and docbook editing in LyX.

The second attached ebuild removes this optional support altogether.

Why remove these programs from the ebuild dependencies?
latex2html and sgmltools-lite are just two of the optional tools you
can install to gain access to the endless number of LyX supported
features; there are so many other things that one can install
to enable more features in LyX: other graphical converters,
document converters, other LaTeX styles, other LaTeX packages...

These are purely runtime requirements, completely independent from
the LyX compilation. I do not think that these additional packages
should be included in RDEPEND with optional use flags, as gentoo
does now, because recompiling the whole LyX just to get them is not very
clever.
I think that the short-term solution is to add many einfo at the
end of the ebuild to list the missing packages that the user could
install. In the long-term, ebuilds need a way to "suggest", to use
Debian terminology, separate runtime dependencies that one can install
without the need to recompile the whole program.

Created an attachment (id=102177) [details]
optional support for HTML output and Docbook editing

Created an attachment (id=102178) [details]
optional support for HTML output and Docbook editing (diff against
lyx-1.4.2.ebuild)

Created an attachment (id=102180) [details]
new ebuild without dependencies on additional programs

Created an attachment (id=102182) [details]
new ebuild without dependencies on additional programs (diff against
lyx-1.4.2.ebuild)

latex2html is currently used in ebuilds.
as far as docbook support i think last version when docbook support worked
in lyx was some 1.2 or so. are you able to work with lyx+docbook?

docbook useflag added to lyx 1.6 ebuild

i think we can close this, since 1.6 is in tree.

(In reply to comment #7)
> i think we can close this, since 1.6 is in tree.
> 

yep they're now optional and controlled via useflags for the 1.6 series