app-text/textlive-2010 has a dependency on media-libs/freetype:1[kpathesea] when the the `truetype' USE flag is set. Neither app-text/texlive-core-2010 nor any package in dev-texlive/* depends on freetype 1.x. (texlive-core-2010 depends on freetype 2.x when `xetex' USE is set, but not 1.x). After unmerging media-libs/freetype, neither portage-2.2 nor revdep-rebuild detected any broken binaries, so I believe this dependency is in fact extraneous and can safely be removed.
Created attachment 251981 [details, diff] remove needless freetype 1.x dependency from texlive-2010
... its for the ttf2* utilities...
It might be better to name the flag in some way to not collide with truetype, because mostly users don't need this feature and freetype:1 pulled in? I am just reviewing my local useflag and stumbled upon this... (feel free to close it again if you disagree as i have it fixed for myself anyway).
(In reply to comment #3) > It might be better to name the flag in some way to not collide with truetype, > because mostly users don't need this feature and freetype:1 pulled in? gentoo-x86/profiles $ grep truetype use.desc truetype - Adds support for FreeType and/or FreeType2 fonts I guess there's no conflict :) what I would like to see is a freetype:2 port of the ttf2* utilities
Well, it now looks like freetype-1.4 is unsafe: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-910786.html Perhaps the suggestion in the forum thread to mask freetype-1.4 should be heeded to?
See also Bug 235412 and Bug 225851.
