Bug 256850

Summary:	app-admin/mon includes unnecessary packages
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Maurice Volaski <mvolaski>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	proposed metadata.xml file adding additional USE flags to app-admin/mon proposed ebuild adding several new USE flags to app-admin/mon

Description Maurice Volaski 2009-01-29 21:06:48 UTC

The app-admin/mon ebuild summarily includes a number of packages that the user may or may not use:

[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/libnet-1.22  USE="-sasl" 67 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Convert-BER-1.3101  25 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Period-1.20-r3  11 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Time-HiRes-1.97.19  86 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Filesys-DiskSpace-0.05  5 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/IO-Tty-1.07  22 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] net-analyzer/fping-2.4_beta2-r2  60 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Crypt-DES-2.05  16 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.07  0 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/digest-base-1.15  8 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-libnet-1.22  0 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Time-HiRes-1.97.19  0 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Expect-1.21  53 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-digest-base-1.15  0 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Net-Telnet-3.03-r1  35 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] perl-core/Digest-MD5-2.38  45 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.11  38 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Mon-0.11-r2  23 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.38  0 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1  14 kB [0]
[ebuild  N    ] dev-perl/Net-SNMP-5.2.0  82 kB [0]

To make the installation more granular, there could be individual USE flags added.

Comment 1 Maurice Volaski 2009-01-29 21:08:34 UTC

Created attachment 180164 [details]
proposed metadata.xml file adding additional USE flags to app-admin/mon

Comment 2 Maurice Volaski 2009-01-29 21:09:23 UTC

Created attachment 180166 [details]
proposed ebuild adding several new USE flags to app-admin/mon

Comment 3 Maurice Volaski 2009-01-29 21:11:22 UTC

Note that the dev-perl/Mon ebuild is emerged only when the proposed perl flag is set. However, the proposed ebuild doesn't explicitly require the corresponding version (presently 1.2.0) to mon.

Comment 4 Markos Chandras (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-10-16 11:02:22 UTC

This package is now masked for removal per bug #375071