Bug 867067 – app-office/libreoffice-bin-7.3.4.2 needs gcc, redundant?

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description mike 2022-08-28 10:09:47 UTC]

Hi,
libreoffice-bin is a binary package but pulls in heavy dependencies like gcc (and boost) which are usually only needed for compiling source code. Is that really needed? Maybe those can be dropped?


$ cat /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice-bin/libreoffice-bin-7.3.4.2.ebuild 
... 
BIN_COMMON_DEPEND="
        app-text/hunspell:0/1.7
        =app-text/libexttextcat-3.4*
        =app-text/libmwaw-0.3*
        dev-cpp/abseil-cpp:0/20211102
        dev-libs/boost:0/1.79.0
        dev-libs/icu:0/71.1
        dev-libs/liborcus:0/0.17
        >=media-gfx/graphite2-1.3.10
        media-libs/harfbuzz:0/4.0.0[icu]
        media-libs/libjpeg-turbo:0/0.2
        media-libs/libpng:0/16
        media-libs/openjpeg:2/7
        media-libs/zxing-cpp:0/0
        >=sys-devel/gcc-11.3.0
        >=sys-libs/glibc-2.34
"

[Comment 1 mike 2022-08-28 10:10:16 UTC]

Created attachment 801655 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner 2022-08-28 13:42:24 UTC]

Maybe, however please show me a system that has libreoffice but not boost or gcc anyway.

[Comment 3 Sam James 2022-08-28 13:52:40 UTC]

We need libstdc++ and we're probably linked against Boost (and if we're not, likely to be in future). See bug

[Comment 4 Stephan Hartmann (RETIRED) 2022-08-28 14:36:39 UTC]

gcc dep might be redundant when building libreoffice-bin with --static-libstdc++