There are a number of extra packages that are useful in a SpamAssassin installation, detailed in INSTALL.gz - the existing ebuild mentions their existence, but doesn't help you install them (not all the ebuilds have the name of the package given in the docs, fex. IP::Country::Fast is in dev-perl/IP-Country). The attached patch adds a USE flag that will pull in all these extra dependencies for people who want a relatively 'complete' SA install.
Created attachment 48517 [details, diff] Patch to add extra dependencies for more tests
A USE flag for all that stuff is the wrong solution here (though if eg. "spf" became a global flag one day, we could add it). Maybe an einfo mentioning dev-perl/Mail-SPF-Query, dev-perl/IP-Country, mail-filter/razor, mail-filter/dcc and dev-python/pyzor at the end of the merge process would be a sane solution. Time::HiRes is part of Perl 5.8.5 BTW. And why did you add libnet?
There's an einfo at present which mentions reading INSTALL.gz for optional modules; a more specific one listing the exact packages would be helpful, yeah. I'm not convinced that it's wrong to have a USE.. I submitted this after spending some time trying to track down just why some of the entries in my world file were present (dev-perl/IP-Country stumped me for a while..). My argument would be that I don't have a specific desire to have these pieces of software installed; Razor, Pyzor, DCC, etc would be no use to me without SpamAssassin to 'drive' them; so they logically should be dependencies of SA, in my mind.. What I'm looking for is something analogous to Debian's Recommends: or Suggests: dependencies, for packages that are not required, but will enhance the functionality of the parent package. I thought a USE flag was the right way to do this. Simply telling the user to install something else as well doesn't record the 'dependency', even if it's not a hard requirement. Whoops re Time::HiRes; I had it installed on my machine from before it was in perl... likewise for libnet (it provides Net::SMTP which SA uses to submit spam to SpamCop). Both of those can be dropped, if this isn't discarded entirely. It's not up to me, but I expected to see a USE flag for the extra tests, and was disappointed by the expectation that I manually install a whole bunch of things in order to get full functionality from SA..
what about a use flag for dcc, a use flag for razor and a use flag for pyzor? Those seem like valid use flags...
Mass re-assign.
Fixed in version about to hit portage - all of these flags are now real use flags.
