Bug 503440

Summary:	x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.0_rc2 require console web browsers
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Heidelberg (okias) <david>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500854
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Heidelberg (okias) 2014-03-04 18:57:22 UTC

difference between rc1 and rc2, that rc2 start forcing me to install links.

As I looked at debian solution, they're happy with any browser and use virtual package for it.

Is possible to create some virtual package for www-browsers rather than using virtual/w3m and hardcoded two browsers into ebuild? If yes, I'll create bug with request.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 David Heidelberg (okias) 2014-03-04 20:01:26 UTC

Sorry about that, I investigate more and it's required to build it.

Probably this could be avoided by not building man pages, not sure how.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-03-04 20:46:50 UTC

Earlier, there was stale old manpages in the git, as in, the pregenerated manpages were part of the repository, which caused people to ship
old manpages
However, the upstream should still ship the generated manpages for the release *tarballs* to avoid these type of build dependencies
If you have free time, please contact the upstream author, Rex Dieter, or possibly Jiri Slaby, to do that:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/

Comment 3 David Heidelberg (okias) 2014-03-04 21:01:12 UTC

I notified Jiří, thx for filling see also :)