app-text/wv installs a 'wvPDF' which needs the 'latex' binary. However, the package doesn't depend on any LaTeX package and also has no useflag relating to that. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. unmerge all latex binaries 2. emerge app-text/wv 2. run 'wvPDF' Actual Results: localhost ~ # wvPDF Could not find required program 'latex' Expected Results: Converts given office document to PDF.
Can you please add a build.log? Thanks
+*wv-1.2.9 (31 Jan 2011) + + 31 Jan 2011; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> -wv-1.2.4.ebuild, + +wv-1.2.9.ebuild: + Version bump, remove old, dvips and latex are required (bug #345121). +
I'd like to reconsider applied changes due to upstream word on their homepage: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ " wv Utilities Warning: all of the utilities (with the exception of wvSummary) should be considered deprecated in favor of using AbiWord. wvWare the Microsoft Word DOC handling library is not deprecated, and is used heavily by (eg.) AbiWord." Since I don't really like that LaTex dependency when I don't have a USE flag for it, especially when it's used for some PDF thing, looks odd. At least if you had the choice in abiword it would probably make sense from the dependencies POV.
I would vote for using a "minimal" USE flag (turned on by default) to install only the tools needed by abiword (and not depending in latex then). What do you think?
or a more meaningful +tools ? We would remove all command line tools without this flag, abiword only depends on the lib afaik, we could grep the sources to make sure.
+*wv-1.2.9-r1 (02 Feb 2011) + + 02 Feb 2011; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +wv-1.2.9-r1.ebuild, + metadata.xml: + Build and install tools only when requested since they are considered + deprecated in favor of using AbiWord, this also allows us to not depend on + latex always. +
thanks for the updated ebuild.
