Bug 209093

Summary:	isn't app-text/ding supposed to pull in app-text/agrep and app-text/ispell ?
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jerome Potts <jpotts>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Torsten Veller (RETIRED) <tove>
Status:	VERIFIED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jerome Potts 2008-02-06 07:36:51 UTC

Reading Ding's home page, http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~fri/ding/ , i thought that it has those dependencies. If i misunderstood, then please accept my apologies for the disturbance.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. paludis --pretend --install --dl-upgrade as-needed  app-text/ding
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
These packages will be installed:
* app-text/ding-1.5 {:0} [N] 

Total: 1 package (1 new)

Expected Results:  
These packages will be installed:
* sys-apps/miscfiles-1.4.2 {:0} [N] -minimal
* app-text/ispell-3.2.06-r6 {:0} [N]
* app-text/agrep-2.04 {:0} [N]
* app-text/ding-1.5 {:0} [N] 

Total: 4 package (4 new)

Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-06 09:11:41 UTC

These are no hard dependencies, more like suggested dependencies. ding can offer more features if agrep or ispell are installed.

The README file says: "{Ding is] A Tk based Front-End to [ae]grep, ispell, dict, ..."
I hope this is enough and more info isn't needed? If you disagree, I can add a note to the ebuild.

Thanks.

Comment 2 Jerome Potts 2008-02-06 18:08:54 UTC

Ah, i had missed that "front-end" description line. Sorry.

Comment 3 Philipp Ludwig 2024-01-09 20:52:32 UTC

This bug is very old, but I think it should be reopened. ding now simply just does not work if agrep is not available; it is easily fixed when dev-libs/tre is installed, but of course you have to know that agrep is supplied by tre in the first place.

I think at least a message explaining this should be printed on merge.