482080 – app-emulation/wine has an automagic dependency on sys-apps/attr

Bug 482080 - app-emulation/wine has an automagic dependency on sys-apps/attr

Summary: app-emulation/wine has an automagic dependency on sys-apps/attr

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Wine Maintainers

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Reported:	2013-08-22 12:22 UTC by James Le Cuirot
Modified:	2013-09-01 14:27 UTC (History)
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Description James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2013-08-22 12:22:24 UTC

Wine uses extended attributes to implement Windows ACL. This is needed when using Microsoft PlayReady (e.g. DRM-protected media via Silverlight). Unfortunately Wine's dependency on sys-apps/attr is automagic. It simply checks for the presence and usability of attr/xattr.h regardless. I doubt a Wine bug report about this will get addressed in a hurry. I'd be inclined to just add it as a mandatory dependency.

Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-09-01 06:02:46 UTC

First, what version of wine are you using?

Second, please explain where wine checks for xattr.h. When I grep wine-1.6 and wine-1.7.1 source code for xattr.h, I do not see any results.

Comment 2 James Le Cuirot gentoo-dev

2013-09-01 07:13:01 UTC

Ah! My mistake. I spotted this while applying the "compholio" patches to make Pipelight (see bug #481596) work. I didn't realise that xattr.h had been introduced by the patches. I was planning to open another bug report to get these patches included but I'll resolve this issue first. Please close this as INVALID.