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Bug 803398 - sys-boot/grub: missing mention of optional dependency on mtools
Summary: sys-boot/grub: missing mention of optional dependency on mtools
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Mike Gilbert
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Reported: 2021-07-22 17:06 UTC by Timo Rothenpieler
Modified: 2021-07-22 17:27 UTC (History)
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Description Timo Rothenpieler 2021-07-22 17:06:40 UTC
The grub ebuild does mention the optional dependency on dev-libs/libisoburn for grub-mkrescue.
But it does not mention sys-fs/mtools, which is equally required for it to work (at lest for EFI targets).

Is there a particular reason there's no use flag to pull in those dependencies?
I wondered why I had those installed and in my world file at least once so far.
Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2021-07-22 17:27:21 UTC
> Is there a particular reason there's no use flag to pull in those dependencies?

QA policy prohibits introducing USE flags for optional runtime dependencies.

https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/dependencies.html#pg0001