Bug 228793 – media-fonts/terminus-font-4.26-r1 is pulling x11-apps/bdftopcf without X

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nikita Ofitserov 2008-06-21 18:10:21 UTC]

Solution for bug #155783 has a side effect: use flag "X" was dropped, and x11-apps/bdftopcf is pulled unconditionally, even on machine with no X installed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge =media-fonts/terminus-font-4.26-r1 on a system without X
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Actual Results:  
x11-apps/bdftopcf is pulled

Expected Results:  
no dependency on x11-apps/bdftopcf

[Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2008-06-22 11:36:06 UTC]

Yup. This is build time dependency. So actually after you build and install font you can unmerge this dependency ('emerge --depclean --with-bdeps n' should work in terminus-font-4.26-r2). I don't see any problems with this approach.

But well. Before I close this bug as WONTFIX I'd like to hear what others think on this issue. Yesterday I was about to add consolefontssonly USE flag for this exact dependency but is it worth it?

[Comment 2 Nikita Ofitserov 2008-06-23 05:47:11 UTC]

Well, as I understand, to install it first I will need several X libraries, and I do not want to install them. Use flag will do it - I personally need only console fonts from this package.

[Comment 3 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) 2008-10-06 07:20:20 UTC]

Ok, I've fixed this in media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 where I've added pcf, psf and raw USE flags. To avoid pulling x11-apps/bdftopcf you just need to build without pcf USE flag. FIXED.