Bug 351443

Summary:	dev-libs/e_dbus: dependency on sys-libs/hal is incorrectly classified
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andrew Brouwers <abrouwers>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Andrew Brouwers 2011-01-12 15:35:33 UTC

In the latest e17 snapshot, the default E modules (including EFM) need EHAL from e_dbus to be built in order to build E itself.  e_dbus will build and install EHAL, regardless of whether or not hal is actually installed.  It will install a very small file that will utilize hal IF the user chooses to.

e will actually build and run fine with EHAL, regardless of hal being around or not.  Therefore, the dependency really isn't an RDEPEND dep.

This should either be removed, or maybe better, use a PDEPEND for the hal use flag.  That way, EHAL always gets built (which E needs), and if the user enables the USE flag, hal will get pulled in afterwards too, and E will make use of it in the file manager.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Andrew Brouwers 2011-01-12 17:17:09 UTC

Asking upstream about the dep:

21:31 @   raster| edbus has NO DEPENDENCY ON HAL
21:31 @   raster| it can build ehal without hal on the system

Comment 2 Thomas Sachau gentoo-dev

2011-01-12 17:34:30 UTC

The discussion on IRC was already too long, so i will keep it short here:

No, i wont change the ebuild, it is intended to be as it currently is.