Bug 735128 – x11-misc/virtualgl-2.6.4-r1 should not require lots of ruby dependencies but it does

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description s 2020-08-01 21:56:21 UTC]

x11-misc/virtualgl-2.6.4-r1 update adds non-optional virtual/opencl dependency.
And virtual/opencl brings dev-libs/ocl-icd  which adds bunch of unwanted stuff to the system. And looks like ruby is used there for docs. Most users don't need that.

x11-misc/virtualgl-2.6.1 doesn't have such issue.

As a result following packages going to be installed:

```
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/opencl-headers-2020.03.13-r1::gentoo  48 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-eselect/eselect-ruby-20190121::gentoo  2 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] app-text/asciidoc-8.6.10_p20181016-r1::gentoo  USE="-examples -graphviz -highlight -test" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_6" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/colm-0.13.0.5::gentoo  719 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/ragel-7.0.0.10-r2::gentoo  USE="-vim-syntax" 762 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-lang/ruby-2.5.8:2.5::gentoo  USE="berkdb gdbm rdoc ssl -debug -doc -examples -ipv6 -jemalloc -libressl -rubytests -socks5 -static-libs -tk -xemacs" 11034 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/rubygems-2.7.10::gentoo  USE="-server -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24)" 844 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] virtual/rubygems-15::gentoo  RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26)" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/rake-12.3.3::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26)" 120 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/json-2.3.0:2::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26) (-ruby27)" 112 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/xmlrpc-0.3.0::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26) (-ruby27)" 34 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/power_assert-1.1.5::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26) (-ruby27)" 17 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/did_you_mean-1.2.1:2.5::gentoo  USE="-test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25" 21 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/test-unit-3.3.3:2::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26)" 130 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/net-telnet-0.1.1-r1:1::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24)" 13 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/minitest-5.11.3:5::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26)" 78 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/kpeg-1.1.0-r1:1::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26) (-ruby27)" 57 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] virtual/ruby-ssl-11::gentoo  RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26) (-ruby27)" 0 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/racc-1.4.14::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26)" 114 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-ruby/rdoc-6.1.2::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26)" 652 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/ocl-icd-2.2.12-r3::gentoo  USE="khronos-headers" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 79 KiB
```

[Comment 1 Pacho Ramos 2020-08-04 17:45:12 UTC]

opencl is needed by upstream as otherwise some apps will break when running under optirun

If you think opencl shouldn't pull ruby deps, open a bug for that one, but wrongly skipping opencl dep leading to semibroken setup is not the right way to go

[Comment 2 s 2020-08-05 14:41:31 UTC]

I've figured out wha's happening. There are two repos on github that provides ocl-icd.
First one from KhronosGroup https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenCL-ICD-Loader and the second one is https://github.com/OCL-dev/ocl-icd.

So in gentoo for some reason second one is used and it uses ruby. But according to this: https://github.com/OCL-dev/ocl-icd/issues/11 I don't see any reasons why to use fork instead of "original".

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2020-08-05 15:27:26 UTC]

For that I would open a new bug report asking about why using one fork and not the other... I guess their maintainers will know better :/

Thanks