Worth noting, pdfbox-0.7.3 has RESTRICT=test Reproducible: Always
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Created attachment 403016 [details] emerge --info
+ 12 May 2015; Patrice Clement <monsieurp@gentoo.org> + files/pdfbox-1.8.8-build.xml.patch, pdfbox-1.8.8.ebuild: + Add RESTRICT=test back and turn off tests. Correct wrong slots. Fix bug + 549110. + I also added a patch to turn off these pesky downloads. It should work fine now. Thanks for the heads up.