Bug 416663

Summary:	sys-fs/udev[extras] depends <- gobject-introspection <- cairo, etc.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Cedric Sodhi <manday>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	ssuominen
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Cedric Sodhi 2012-05-19 19:46:36 UTC

Even if gobject-introspection is an actual dependency of udev, which I can hardly imagine, it must not be subjected to the same "general" USE Flag "extras", which is required by many far more "fundamental" packages (I don't have any example handy, but I'm sure there are applications which are not even slightly X11 related which require +extras).

Therefore, udev pulls in gobject-introspection, which in turn requires cairo, et al, which in turn may require more deps, according to their respective USE flags.

This rat-tail should be cut off somewhere. I guess the most sensible solution would be splitting the gobject-introspection dependency into an "introspection" USE flag of udev (did I mention that I cannot imagine how udev would possibly require introspection?).

Comment 1 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-19 19:52:26 UTC

USE="extras" shouldn't be used anymore. It's deprecated.

Both stable (171-r5 or 171-r6) and ~arch (182-r3) has separate USE flags like gudev, acl, hwdb, rule_generator, etc. that will do exactly what USE="extras" did. 

So, solution:

Stop using USE=extras and use the separate USE flags.