Bug 120752

Summary:	www-servers/tomcat-5.0.28-r12 should not require dev-java/struts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mike Slinn <mslinn>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	alonbl, gfernandez, wltjr
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mike Slinn 2006-01-28 11:21:38 UTC

Not everyone who uses tomcat wants or needs struts.  tomcat-5.0.28-r12.ebuild has added a dependency on struts - but struts is not required for tomcat's operation - it is a framework that builds on top of Java servlet containers.

Line 35 of the ebuild (/usr/portage/www-servers/tomcat/tomcat-5.0.28-r12.ebuild) should be commented out or deleted:
=dev-java/struts-1.1-r4

Comment 1 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-28 12:17:03 UTC

If I'm not mistaken, some of the example webapps use struts, which is where the dependency come from.

Additionally, struts builds on the servlet api, not the container. The serlet api is provided by a sepearate package, servletapi, which was gleaned out of tomcat. If struts dependend on tomcat, and tomcat on struts, then that would be a problem, but I believe that was one of the motivations between separating out servletapi to a separate package.

Comment 2 Mike Slinn 2006-01-28 12:49:03 UTC

The struts dependency was recently added.  I don't know if the examples in older ebuilds required struts or not, but tomcat-5.0.27-r5.ebuild does not depend on struts.  A large percentage of Tomcat installations do not require struts.  No point in installing the extra package, especially for a production system.

Perhaps a struts use flag, defaulting to off, is the solution.

Comment 3 William L. Thomson Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-06 17:51:13 UTC

tomcat-5.0.28-r12 MUST depend on struts in order to compile Tomcat. It's not even considered an optional package with regard to installation. The addition of the dependency is a result of compiling Tomcat from source. Please see Tomcat's build.properties.default for Struts inclusion.

Comment 4 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-04-06 17:53:11 UTC

Marking as invalid, because struts is a real dependency.

Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-19 03:17:43 UTC

*** Bug 133763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-04 23:59:29 UTC

*** Bug 146349 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***