Bug 411843 – sys-boot/grub-2.00_beta3-r1: please make dev-libs/libisoburn and sys-boot/os-prober optional

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Nikoli 2012-04-13 11:28:25 UTC]

Please make all new non optional deps optional if possible.
Not sure about dev-libs/lzo and >=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2-r5, but dev-libs/libisoburn and sys-boot/os-prober are optional upstream.

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2012-04-13 15:15:22 UTC]

The grub2-mkrescue command does not work without the xorriso command from dev-libs/isoburn.

If sys-boot/os-prober is missing, /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober will be silently skipped.

I suppose that both packages are technically optional, but you do lose functionality without them.

Would you be happy if I added a couple of use flags? One would control installation of the grub2-mkrescue command, and the other the 30_os-prober file.

[Comment 2 Nikoli 2012-04-13 15:45:06 UTC]

> Would you be happy if I added a couple of use flags? One would control
> installation of the grub2-mkrescue command, and the other the 30_os-prober
> file.

Sure :)

[Comment 3 Paweł Rumian 2012-04-13 15:58:54 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)

> Would you be happy if I added a couple of use flags? One would control
> installation of the grub2-mkrescue command, and the other the 30_os-prober
> file.

I will also wholeheartedly vote for this, as I completely do not need neither a rescue CD nor OS prober on my Linux box :)

[Comment 4 Mike Gilbert 2012-05-09 23:19:44 UTC]

Replaced with elog messages in grub-2.00_beta5.

[Comment 5 Nikoli 2012-05-10 02:18:30 UTC]

Thanks, but why with elog instead of USE flags?

[Comment 6 Mike Gilbert 2012-05-10 03:07:56 UTC]

I don't like having use flags for optional runtime only deps. The only purpose is to inform the user of the extra functionality; elog works for that but does not cause rebuilds with emerge --newuse.