Bug 247515

Summary:	Layman does not pull in git as a dependancy
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sam M W <wilsonsamm>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sam M W 2008-11-18 22:06:20 UTC

So, emerging layman does not pull dev-utils/git as a dependancy. I reckon this is not as it should be, because although layman installs just fine, git is needed to do anything useful, like add an overlay.

There's a simple fix, and that is to emerge dev-utils/git as layman suggests you do when trying to add an overlay...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge layman

Actual Results:  
layman doesn't do anything useful, but asks me if I remembered to emerge dev-utils/git.

Expected Results:  
I wanted layman to successfully add overlays to the portage tree

Comment 1 Sam M W 2008-11-18 22:28:16 UTC

Sorry, my mistake.
Turns out you only need the git USE flag to have git merged automatically, and that layman actually doesn't need git anyway. 
I had this:
app-portage/layman-1.2.1  USE="-git -subversion -test