soapysdr has several USE flags which are PDEPEND-only. PDEPEND is exclusively for breaking circular dependencies, nothing else (e.g. optional runtime dependencies). e.g. 0.8.1-r2 has: ``` IUSE="bladerf hackrf python rtlsdr plutosdr uhd" REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )" RDEPEND="python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )" DEPEND="${RDEPEND}" BDEPEND="python? ( dev-lang/swig:0 )" PDEPEND=" bladerf? ( net-wireless/soapybladerf ) hackrf? ( net-wireless/soapyhackrf ) rtlsdr? ( net-wireless/soapyrtlsdr ) plutosdr? ( net-wireless/soapyplutosdr ) uhd? ( net-wireless/soapyuhd ) " ``` None of those flags pass anything down to CMake.
(In reply to Sam James from comment #0) > soapysdr has several USE flags which are PDEPEND-only. PDEPEND is > exclusively for breaking circular dependencies,... And that is exactly the reason why they are in PDEPEND. While soapysdr provides the library and infrastructure used by applications the packages controlled by the USE-flags provides a modular hardware interface the library relies on (kind of plugins). All PDEPEND packages use the infrastructure provided by soapysdr itself, so they have to be installed after soapysdr. I would suggest keeping it as it is.
(In reply to Thomas Beierlein from comment #1) > (In reply to Sam James from comment #0) > > soapysdr has several USE flags which are PDEPEND-only. PDEPEND is > > exclusively for breaking circular dependencies,... > > And that is exactly the reason why they are in PDEPEND. > But there isn't any actual dependence of soapysdr on those? It'd be more fitting as a metapackage instead to control plugins (where you could have proper RDEPEND, not PDEPEND). Having USE on a package which compiles something where the USE does nothing to the installed image is discouraged.
(In reply to Sam James from comment #2) > But there isn't any actual dependence of soapysdr on those? No. But soapysdr without any of the the others would be useless (In that sense a ANY-OF is missing at least). > It'd be more > fitting as a metapackage instead to control plugins (where you could have > proper RDEPEND, not PDEPEND). You mean something like tree-sitter-meta or similar and move the USE-flags to the meta-package? Any problem I see is that we would need to change all packages depending on soapysdr (7 atm). > Having USE on a package which compiles something where the USE does nothing > to the installed image is discouraged.
