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Bug 155860 - app-text/antiword wrong dependency on virtual/ghostscript
Summary: app-text/antiword wrong dependency on virtual/ghostscript
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2006-11-21 08:32 UTC by Dmitry 'MAD' Artamonow
Modified: 2006-11-21 09:17 UTC (History)
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Description Dmitry 'MAD' Artamonow 2006-11-21 08:32:57 UTC
User-Agent:       Opera/7.52 (X11; Linux i586; U)  [en]
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app-text/antiword has a hard dependency on virtual/ghostscript in ebuild
I think such a dependency must be at least optional, if it needed at all.

Ghostscript doesn't needed for compilation of antiword, and as far as I can 
tell, for operation too. I emerged antiword with --nodeps and it works fine for 
all types of output formats (plain text, PostScript, PDF) without any 
ghostscript installed. I can guess that ghostscript is listed as dependency 
because kantiword script uses gv for rendering PostScript, but, wait a minute, 
gv is not a part of ghostscript, it's standalone package (app-text/gv). And I 
don't use kantiword anyway (USE="-kde") - why then should I fetch and install 
~13M ghostscript?



Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-21 09:17:35 UTC
fixed in portage, thanks.