It seems upstream has removed the need for glib in version 0.8.0, please see https://github.com/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm/pull/390 The INSTALL files for 0.8.{0,1} also seem to imply that xrandr is now a required runtime dependency but I haven't tested that myself
Don't do that.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6c0083191a755722ff62412ade5ab42994345fea commit 6c0083191a755722ff62412ade5ab42994345fea Author: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-04-21 08:28:30 +0000 Commit: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-04-21 08:28:47 +0000 x11-wm/herbstluftwm: Drop dev-libs/glib dependency Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.99, Repoman-2.3.22 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/718712 Signed-off-by: Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> x11-wm/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm-0.8.0.ebuild | 1 - x11-wm/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm-0.8.1.ebuild | 1 - x11-wm/herbstluftwm/herbstluftwm-9999.ebuild | 1 - 3 files changed, 3 deletions(-)