Due to the erronious information provided in bug #347325 net-analyser/wireshark now has xdg-utils as a dependency. While xdg-utils can be used to locate the browser it's NOT a dependency, a user can simply Edit => Preferences and change the "Web browser command" and the help system will work just the same as having xdg-utils installed. Having xdg-utils as a dependency will also pull in an additional six packages (at least on my system), this is un-necessary bloat for a feature that has next to no practical value, if you can use wireshark (a professional network analysis tool) then you shouldn't need your hand held when it comes to using its preferences. At best xdg-utils should be pulled in as the result of a useflag, but its not a dependency, if xdg-utils are available it'll work with it, if not, the user can either emerge it or change the preference. Having been managing this package (sans the xdg-utils dependency) in my PACKAGE_OVERLAY I've been meaning to report it for some time, and was reminded to do so today with the 1.8.0 update reaching ~arch. So, I can report that wireshark works perfectly well without xdg-utils installed, and this "dependency" is simply erronious. best ... khayyam Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -pv net-analyser/wireshark 2. 3. Actual Results: pulls in xgd-utils as a "dependency" Expected Results: emerge'd without xdg-utils. Dependencies are those things required for the application to work, not the silly nonsense cooked up by the freedesktop good idea fariy.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 347325 ***
