Bug 537094

Summary:	app-text/xmlto should alternatively depend on www-client/elinks
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	igel <mathiaswe>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	jer
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	patch for xmlto to use elinks if it exists xdg-utils ebuild respecting the possibility for xmlto to use elinks

Description igel 2015-01-20 01:07:57 UTC

x11-misc/xdg-utils depends on links/lynx/w3m in order to build manpages using xmlto. However, elinks works just as well (I can compile xdg-utils fine if prior to compilation, I create a symlink to elinks: ln -s /usr/bin/elinks /usr/bin/links). I'll submit a patch to the dude who writes xmlto tomorrow, but maybe it's worth changing the ebuild to do something like the quick&dirty stuff I did above + add elinks to the "||" in the dependency?

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2015-01-20 07:32:37 UTC

(In reply to igel from comment #0)
> I'll submit a patch to the dude who writes xmlto tomorrow,

Great.

> but maybe it's worth changing the ebuild to do something
> like the quick&dirty stuff I did above + add elinks to the "||" in the
> dependency?

Quick and dirty is not exactly how we should run this distro, right?

Comment 2 igel 2015-01-20 12:27:52 UTC

Created attachment 394402 [details, diff]
patch for xmlto to use elinks if it exists

here's the patch if anyone with the same problem stumbles upon this.

Comment 3 igel 2015-01-20 12:32:09 UTC

Created attachment 394404 [details]
xdg-utils ebuild respecting the possibility for xmlto to use elinks

Note that, the whole reason for this bugreport is that x11-misc/xdg-utils depends on links/lynx/w3m because of the limitation of the unpatched app-text/xmlto. Thus, this modified ebuild for xdg-utils is warranted.