Bugzilla Bug 88436

Portage wants to install ispell. I don

Portage wants to install ispell. I don´t know why I need two spell checkers on
my system, I already have aspell. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge sync
2. emerge -uDpv world


Actual Results:  
[ebuild     U ] dev-util/dialog-1.0.20050206 [1.0.20040731] +unicode 292 kB
[ebuild  N    ] app-text/ispell-3.2.06-r6  575 kB


Expected Results:  
I don´t want ispell, I have aspell.

# genlop -l | grep aspell
  Thu Aug 19 16:47:48 2004 >>> app-text/aspell-0.50.5-r4
  Thu Aug 19 17:03:12 2004 >>> app-dicts/aspell-cs-0.51.0
  Thu Aug 19 17:03:24 2004 >>> app-dicts/aspell-en-0.51.1


# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1,
2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#2, Feb  7 2005,
10:01:40)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r7
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/glftpd/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks makecheck
sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo
rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb
bitmap-fonts crypt curl emboss encode fbcon firebird foomaticdb fortran gd
gd-external gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imap imlib innodb java jpeg junit libg++ libwww
mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly odbc
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png pnp postgres python quicktime readline
sasl sdl slang snmp socks5 spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

Use --tree option and see which ebuild depends on ispell.

Comment #1: Hmm, not that it would explain anything. :-)

# emerge -uDtpv ispell

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-text/ispell-3.2.06-r6  575 kB

Well that's bad.. if it was a dependency of something it could be simply some
wrong dependencies...

Try with unclepine script to search what is depending on ispell (it should
consider also PDEPENDs which tree doesn't show).

Not really sure how exactly I am supposed to use it but `./unclepine -di
app-text/ispell` shows nothing, nada, zero...

!!! No package matches your selection!

Uhm. Found it - squirrelmail-1.4.4

RDEPEND="virtual/php
        dev-perl/DB_File
        crypt? ( app-crypt/gnupg )
        ldap? ( net-nds/openldap )
        app-text/ispell"

Please, make this optional dependency with something like local USE="spellcheck" flag. Also, SquirreMail can use both aspell and ispell, neither of them works actually well with PHP in safe mode and the plugin is pretty buggy anyway. Remove the hard dependency. 

Changing the description and assigning to maintainer. 

closing

Comment #6: Sorry, but how is this fixed? 

emerge --sync