dev-vcs/git has IUSE=... +python ... and requires python2.7. I was curious to see what this actually offered since very few packages on my system require Python 2. Unfortunately there's no metadata.xml entry for python, so it gets the default "Add optional support/bindings for the Python language" according to equery u. Diffing two identical builds, one with USE=python and one with USE=-python, the only difference is: /usr/libexec/git-core/git-p4 git-p4 is #!/bin/sh echo >&2 "fatal: git was built without support for $(basename $0) (NO_PYTHON=YesPlease)." exit 128 with USE=-python and an actual program with USE=python. So the default IUSE=... +python ... is pulling in python:2.7 for a script to handle git/perforce integration. That does not need to be on by default. Also, the USE flag needs to be renamed or at minimum described in metadata.xml.
Created attachment 586698 [details, diff] [PATCH] dev-vcs/git: Replace USE=+python with USE=perforce
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a83ca7c3fe8c4e0c700386a12066da5c2f8b4107 commit a83ca7c3fe8c4e0c700386a12066da5c2f8b4107 Author: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-08-13 01:33:51 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-08-16 22:58:05 +0000 dev-vcs/git: Replace USE=+python with USE=perforce Acked by Lars Wendler on IRC. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/692030 Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> dev-vcs/git/git-2.21.0-r2.ebuild | 12 ++++++------ dev-vcs/git/git-2.22.0.ebuild | 12 ++++++------ dev-vcs/git/git-2.22.1.ebuild | 12 ++++++------ dev-vcs/git/git-2.23.0_rc2.ebuild | 12 ++++++------ dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r1.ebuild | 12 ++++++------ dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r2.ebuild | 12 ++++++------ dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r3.ebuild | 12 ++++++------ dev-vcs/git/git-9999.ebuild | 10 +++++----- dev-vcs/git/metadata.xml | 1 + 9 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
