Bug 120565

Summary:	xinetd should optionally depend on perl
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Natanael Copa <natanael.copa>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Natanael Copa 2006-01-27 13:39:50 UTC

By default, xinetd pulls in perl as a RDEPEND. As far I can see you only need perl for converting inetd.conf files to the xinetd conf format and not to be able to run xinetd.

I susgest that perl is removed entirely as a RDEPEND. If you need it you could emerge perl yourself. (normally you wouldnt notice since most people have perl installed).

Alternatively there could be a minimal useflag that discards the perl runtime dependency and removes the perl script.

This perl dependency hurts in gentoo-embedded so please remove the RDEPEND.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-01-27 13:46:39 UTC

bad idea

good idea: make it conditional on USE=perl

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-01-29 01:21:00 UTC

added USE=perl