mtools is required for accessing floppy disks from kde's file selection dialog boxes
I'm no KDE guy, but that doesn't seem like a strict dependency. Especially if emerging mtools after KDE gets you that support anyway.
It doesn't, it's a compile-time thing. Hm....
Posted on gentoo-core for policy clarification.
Status update: since this is a rarely requested functionality, and kdebae is such an important package, we've decided not to make this a dep for now. Once we have support for package-specific ("minor") use flags/parameters, we'll implement this and other similar things that way. (It will happen _some_ day, just not very soon.) I've got a comment about it in the ebuild, so I won't forget.
OK Seemant, let's keep this open so as to not forget about it...
I intended to add a local use flag to kdebase, but now I see that in kde 3.1x, the dep is a rutime one. I.e. the floppy ioslave is always built, and you can emerge mtools at any point in the future to make it work. I'll drop a note to alpha@gentoo.org that they may want to add a keyword to the mtools ebuild (it already has ppc and sparc), add an informational notice to the kdebase ebuild and close this bugreport in a fw days if you don't object. (I wouldn't blame you for not responding after all this time. But, that's what low priority does to a bugreport.)
Psst, Dan... do you want to close this bug now? :)
For now this can be considered fixed. When persistent local useflags get around we might have a conditional dependency on mtools.
*** Bug 25411 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
