The xmltv ebuilds create dependencies based on an environment variable (XMLTV_OPTS). This variable is used to make a selection of the available `backends'. Problem 1: there is no documentation on this, apart from reading the ebuild source Problem 2: if not set, everything will be enabled, including somthing that relies on TK, which pulls in a dependency on xorg Problem 3: if this happened once, the deps are cached in the portage cache, so even with the envvar set, it still wants to get xorg The solution would be of course to use proper (local) use-flags, which is what everybody would expect and which are in fact designed to handle this kind of customisation. I am not sure if that solves problem 3 though (is there any logic in gentoo that updates the cached deps when use flags change? I hope so). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -pvt xmltv 2. 3. Actual Results: If the box is configured without X, xorg and a whole slew of unwanted packages are pulled in. Expected Results: Enable selection of backends with local USE flags. $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, Apr 27 2005, 19:53:46)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19-r1, 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 apache2 apm bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt cups curl doc emboss encode foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gpm imagemagick imap imlib innodb jpeg libg++ libwww lirc maildir mikmod mmx motif mp3 mysql ncurses offensive pam pdflib perl png pop3 ppds readline samba sasl sdl snmp spell ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
BTW, for now, as a quick fix, it would be nice if the ebuilds honors a -X useflag, so people with a headless box don't have to worrow about remembering to set a ^%$# envvar when portage emerges xmltv (due to a regular update or whatever).
Created attachment 60503 [details, diff] Ebuild to use USE flags instead of XMLOPTS Here's a quick conversion to using USE. Note that the 2 it grabbers have been remmoved and the pt has been added. I tested this rather quickly... For 0.5.39 version.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95166 ***
