857108 – media-video/pipewire-0.54-r1 BDEPEND is pulling unnecessary packages when doc is disabled

Bug 857108 - media-video/pipewire-0.54-r1 BDEPEND is pulling unnecessary packages when doc is disabled

Summary: media-video/pipewire-0.54-r1 BDEPEND is pulling unnecessary packages when doc...

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team

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Reported:	2022-07-09 06:43 UTC by Marcelo Politzer
Modified:	2022-07-09 06:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Marcelo Politzer 2022-07-09 06:43:16 UTC

Package built with the following patch

```
--- pipewire-0.3.54-r1.ebuild	2022-07-08 22:40:22.000000000 -0300
+++ pipewire-0.3.54-r2.ebuild	2022-07-09 03:39:45.680828453 -0300
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
 	>=dev-util/meson-0.59
 	virtual/pkgconfig
 	${PYTHON_DEPS}
-	$(python_gen_any_dep 'dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]')
 	doc? (
+		$(python_gen_any_dep 'dev-python/docutils[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]')
 		app-doc/doxygen
 		media-gfx/graphviz
 	)
```

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-07-09 06:45:52 UTC

It's used for man pages (rst2man). I don't really think docutils is a heavy dependency.

If people really feel that upset about it, we can add a USE=man or something, but it feels a bit silly to do it for something so tiny.