Bug 211456 – sci-geosciences/gpsd-2.34-r1 incorrect RDEPEND on xmlto

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Ed Wildgoose 2008-02-25 22:00:58 UTC]

gpsd ebuild has app-text/xmlto in the RDEPEND, but in fact it's only a *build* time depend.  This drags in a *HUGE* amount of unnecessary junk when building (say) for an embedded system in a chroot

In fact it's an *optional* build time dependency because the man pages are already compiled and distributed as part of the download - xmlto can be used to freshen them (but does this really gain anything?).  So in fact perhaps this should drop from DEPEND altogether and just become an ewarn (whatever the syntax would be for that?)

[Comment 1 Steve Arnold 2008-03-01 21:42:30 UTC]

I've updated 2.34 and 2.36 (but only 2.36 updates are in the tree at the moment) with some fixes and wrapped it in the "minimal" USE flag.  The latter also disables X in 2.36, but not 2.34; please test one or both (the latter is attached to this bug) and let me know if these changes meet your install requirements.

The ncurses stuff is even more of a pain to disable than XSLT, so if you actually have a box with such a minimal install I'd love some test results; that said, if I have any time soon I'll setup a 32-bit chroot and do some testing.  Most other USE flags are still functional even with "minimal" enabled, so be sure and select only what you need and let me know how that works for you.

[Comment 2 Steve Arnold 2008-03-01 21:44:52 UTC]

Created attachment 145046 [details]
Updated version of current stable ebuild

Try both versions if you can; you should be able to sync within an hour or two and see the new one...

[Comment 3 Hanno Böck 2008-06-02 19:53:02 UTC]

the xmlto-dep has been removed with 2.34 and above, it was just forgotten to close this bug.