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Bug 837665 - [TRACKER] packages that depends on sys-fs/e2fsprogs[tools]
Summary: [TRACKER] packages that depends on sys-fs/e2fsprogs[tools]
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Depends on: 837668
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Reported: 2022-04-10 15:35 UTC by ta2002
Modified: 2022-04-10 15:51 UTC (History)
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Description ta2002 2022-04-10 15:35:07 UTC 
With the removal of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-libs, and the addition of the "tools" USE flag to build the ext2fs headers, some packages will fail to build without the tools USE flag enabled (see bug 833110, for example). I don't understand the rationale for ever building e2fsprogs without tools, but I assume that some reason exists for it.
Comment 1 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2022-04-10 15:39:25 UTC 
(In reply to ta2002 from comment #0)
> With the removal of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-libs, and the addition of the "tools"
> USE flag to build the ext2fs headers, some packages will fail to build
> without the tools USE flag enabled (see bug 833110, for example). I don't
> understand the rationale for ever building e2fsprogs without tools, but I
> assume that some reason exists for it.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/806875#c2 is why.
Comment 2 ta2002 2022-04-10 15:43:52 UTC 
(In reply to Sam James from comment #1)
> (In reply to ta2002 from comment #0)

> https://bugs.gentoo.org/806875#c2 is why.

That certainly makes sense, although I would have handled it with a "minimal" USE flag that (implicitly) warns the user that expected functionality might not exist in a package built with that flag.