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Bug 471750 - sys-apps/texinfo-5.1 should optionally depend on dev-perl/libintl-perl dev-perl/Unicode-EastAsianWidth dev-perl/Text-Unidecode
Summary: sys-apps/texinfo-5.1 should optionally depend on dev-perl/libintl-perl dev-pe...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2013-05-29 21:06 UTC by Maurice Volaski
Modified: 2013-05-31 18:25 UTC (History)
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Description Maurice Volaski 2013-05-29 21:06:37 UTC 
Texinfo 5.1's ebuild has the following in configure

econf \
		--with-external-libintl-perl \
		--with-external-Unicode-EastAsianWidth \
		--with-external-Text-Unidecode \


Why are these required and not optional through use keywords? It forces the user to install a whole lot of perl modules that may not be necessary.
Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2013-05-29 21:32:33 UTC 
Those perl modules are always required. If we don't pass those flags to configure, the package uses bundled copies, which is against Gentoo QA policy.
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2013-05-31 18:25:52 UTC 
(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #1)

^^^^ that