Bug 384439 – USE="-doc" sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-2.31.1-r1 pulls in app-text/gnome-doc-utils

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description C. Wijtmans 2011-09-25 15:36:28 UTC]

USE="-doc" sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-2.31.1-r1 pulls in app-text/gnome-doc-utils

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-25 15:49:59 UTC]

That buildtime (not runtime) dependency is always needed as was reported time ago in bug 291880

Simply try to recompile it without gnome-doc-utils and you will see how it fails to build

[Comment 2 C. Wijtmans 2011-09-27 00:44:11 UTC]

Hi, thank you for your time but i believe this bug is not resolved or invalid.
The software should not use any documentation tools when compiled with -doc, because there should not be any documentation.

In my eyes this is a bug that should be fixed.

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-27 11:46:07 UTC]

USE "doc" in gnome packages is not there to prevent any doc installation, it is there to control when to rebuild or not developer docs, this is explained a bit in bug 262491

[Comment 4 C. Wijtmans 2011-09-27 14:39:24 UTC]

So does this mean that the USE flag should be called api-doc? And add an option to build without docs USE=-doc.

This can at least prevent confusion/bug reports in the future, and give some people what they want.

[Comment 5 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-27 15:42:43 UTC]

Well... I think once bug 262491 is solved all will end up being more clear :)