Not everyone who uses tomcat wants or needs struts. tomcat-5.0.28-r12.ebuild has added a dependency on struts - but struts is not required for tomcat's operation - it is a framework that builds on top of Java servlet containers. Line 35 of the ebuild (/usr/portage/www-servers/tomcat/tomcat-5.0.28-r12.ebuild) should be commented out or deleted: =dev-java/struts-1.1-r4
If I'm not mistaken, some of the example webapps use struts, which is where the dependency come from. Additionally, struts builds on the servlet api, not the container. The serlet api is provided by a sepearate package, servletapi, which was gleaned out of tomcat. If struts dependend on tomcat, and tomcat on struts, then that would be a problem, but I believe that was one of the motivations between separating out servletapi to a separate package.
The struts dependency was recently added. I don't know if the examples in older ebuilds required struts or not, but tomcat-5.0.27-r5.ebuild does not depend on struts. A large percentage of Tomcat installations do not require struts. No point in installing the extra package, especially for a production system. Perhaps a struts use flag, defaulting to off, is the solution.
tomcat-5.0.28-r12 MUST depend on struts in order to compile Tomcat. It's not even considered an optional package with regard to installation. The addition of the dependency is a result of compiling Tomcat from source. Please see Tomcat's build.properties.default for Struts inclusion.
Marking as invalid, because struts is a real dependency.
*** Bug 133763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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