Bug 500540

Summary:	dev-python/pycairo should not RDEPEND on x11-libs/xpyb
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Nikoli <nikoli>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Nikoli 2014-02-06 17:49:03 UTC

Ebuild has comment:
# Note: xpyb is used as the C header, not Python modules

so what x11-libs/xpyb is doing in RDEPEND?

Comment 1 Ian Delaney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-03-25 10:30:21 UTC

good question.  However, it doesn't make for a broken ebuild.  While it's needed in DEPEND, it does no harm set in RDEPEND. Can you do a runtime. Nikoli read the doc/reference/surfaces.rst and it appears to me that it is indeed utilised at runtime. See 
.. class:: XCBSurface.

That indeed appears to give the answer.  In order to make a case that it not be included in RDEPEND you need to prove it's never utilised at runtime.

Comment 2 Tim Harder gentoo-dev

2017-05-21 02:48:10 UTC

Fixed in 1.13.1 in the tree.