When the spell useflag is set, inkscape will depend on both : - gtkspell - aspell This is imho suboptimal as gtkspell depends on enchant in its turn depending on either aspell / hunspell / zemberek depending on user's choice with hunspell as default. Hence, forcing aspell as a direct dependency for inkscape just brings two potentially unneeded extra packages to emerge. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 260857 [details, diff] Remove dependency on aspell The proposed patch applies to inkscape-0.48.0.ebuild and removes inkscape's direct dependency on aspell. As usual... works for me !
Recent versions in the tree fix this with automagic patches.