Bug 612410

Summary:	kde-apps/kdecore-meta-16.08.3: Removal of minimal USE flag accidentically dropped kdebase-runtime-meta DEPEND
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Torsten Kaiser <Storklerk>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Torsten Kaiser 2017-03-12 10:02:10 UTC

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=99f3812a0073527dbe3bccd24e75b1810dc92126

This commit removed the following line:
!minimal? ( $(add_kdeapps_dep kdebase-runtime-meta '' 16.04.3) )

So after rebuilding kdecore-meta because of the changed IUSE the following `emerge --depclean` wants zu removed kdebase-runtime-meta and several other rather important looking packages like 'kstart', 'kdebase-menu' or 'kdesu'.

That looks like only the "!minimal? (" should have been deleted, not the complete line...

Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2017-03-13 00:50:25 UTC

kdebase-runtime packages are from KDE 4 and majority of them are not useful when using KDE Plasma 5.

kde-apps/kstart:4 provides /usr/bin/kstart, while kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools:5 provides /usr/bin/kstart5.
kde-apps/kdesu:4 provides /usr/bin/kdesu, while kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools:5 provides /usr/bin/kdesu5.

This "minimal" USE flag was already absent in kde-apps/kdecore-meta-16.12.*.

I think that KDE team is planning masking and later deletion of majority of these packages.