Bug 291691

Summary:	media-tv/xbmc-9.04 shouldn't need to depend on x11-apps/mesa-progs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Olliver Schinagl <oliver>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Olliver Schinagl 2009-11-03 12:05:17 UTC

xbmc has several questionable 'forced' dependancies. One is x11-apps/mesa-progs that supply only
valexia ~ # equery f mesa-progs
 * Searching for mesa-progs ...
 * Contents of x11-apps/mesa-progs-7.4.1:
/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/glxgears
/usr/bin/glxinfo

Unless they do something really silly like grepping for supported extension via glxinfo or using glxgears to display some gears I don't see the need of this. Even if they do use glxinfo to assess the supplied extensions, there should be a patch going upstream to 'fix' this.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-11-08 14:10:49 UTC

please try reading the changelog and/or source code next time

  05 Mar 2009; Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> xbmc-9999.ebuild:
  Add mesa-progs to the depend list #261226 by Michalis Adamidis.

if you have a problem with this behavior, feel free to complain upstream and/or send them a fix yourself.  i dont have a problem with this behavior.

Comment 2 Olliver Schinagl 2009-11-08 14:46:09 UTC

I always liked that gentoo could be a mean and lean distro if you tuned it to be such.

I was trying to get it installed into my dedicated mediabox which is very limited in its resources and flashdisk space. Having 'useless' programs installed to waste resources just to run 'glxgears' is silly!

I'll see what I can do to resolve it upstream properly then.