from xemacs-ispell-1.24.ebuild, line 14 : DEPEND="" it should be DEPEND="app-text/ispell" I presume the 'inherit xemacs-packages' means that it depends on app-editors/xemacs, but if someone has missed out ispell then I might as well check for this too. GNU emacs also uses ispell, so this should be added to its dependencies (possibly with a USE flag)
I don't think that this is the right solution, as ispell.el does not depend on having app-text/ispell installed. For example, I'm using aspell just fine instead. Perhaps a better solution would be to depend on a virtual/spell (but this currently does not exist) or to indicate in the ebuild output that an external spelling application is needed to actually perform spelling.
I'd like to see this fixed, so I'm re-opening and assiging to myself.
My battle plan is: 1. See if I can do a logical or in DEPEND, i.e. DEPEND="app-text/ispell || app-text/aspell" 2. Failing that, implement virtual/spell
Battle plan sounds good to me. One additional concern I have is that this should probably be covered by the 'spell' USE flag. This may sound funny, but there are a lot of xemacs interdependencies and it is possible that users may have to install xemacs-ispell even if they don't want to have any spelling capability. In fact, given that xemacs-devel depends on this means that this is true for the majority of users. Always installing external software on top of that, even if the user doesn't care about spelling, doesn't seem right. Also, this should be covered by RDEPEND, not DEPEND.
Reassigning to herd since jmglov has retired from Gentoo.
After discussing this with the emacs herd, and following the discussion in bug 72850 we won't be implementing such a USE flag after all.
