Trying to build vim is dragging in a nasty slew of dependencies, ostensibly due to a dependency on python despite USE=-python. I'm not sure where it's coming from since all of vim's dependencies are hidden in a maze of twisty eclasses. This didn't used to be the case, since I have older environments with vim installed that are only now dragging in python on a re-merge. Using emerge --nodeps allows vim to be installed. Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-misc/mime-types-8 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="-caps" 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/popt-1.15 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="-nls" 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/libffi-3.0.9 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="-debug -static-libs -test" 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-libs/readline-6.1 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.6-r2 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-shells/bash-4.0_p37 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="net -afs -bashlogger -examples -mem-scramble -nls -plugins -vanilla" 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-misc/rsync-3.0.6 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="iconv -acl -ipv6 -static -xattr" 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/libffi-0 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8n to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="zlib -bindist -gmp -kerberos -sse2 -test" 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-misc/ca-certificates-20090709 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-lang/python-2.6.4-r1 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="ncurses readline ssl threads wide-unicode xml -berkdb -build -doc -examples -gdbm -ipv6 -sqlite -tk -wininst" 0 kB [ebuild N ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="-build -doc -epydoc -python3 (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-editors/vim-7.2.303 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ USE="minimal -acl -bash-completion -cscope -debug -gpm -nls -perl -python -ruby -vim-pager -vim-with-x" 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/python-updater-0.8 to /usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/ 8 kB Portage 2.1.8.3 (embedded, gcc-4.3.4, unavailable, 2.6.34-rc6 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-rc6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q8300_@_2.50GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:00:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.1.0_beta1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo" LANG="en_CA.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/powerpc-e300c3-linux-gnu/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="iconv kdrive modules multicall ppc unicode zlib" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev mouse keyboard tslib" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
vim.eclass inherits from python.eclass and it /looks/ like python.eclass is adding the dep around line 158. It is hard for me to read too.
Ah yes, apparently I should have added: PYTHON_USE_WITH_OPT="python" to the eclass changes I made to support the new python.eclass changes. Thanks for calling this to my attention! Fixed vim.eclass in CVS, python will only be pulled in with USE=python
