| Summary: | dev-util/diffoscope: RFC: include external tool dependencies? | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Karl-Johan Karlsson <creideiki+gentoo-bugzilla> |
| Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | grozin |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Attachments: | ebuild with dependencies on external tools | ||
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=85448b342438c8ababb5c023c51462c197524903 commit 85448b342438c8ababb5c023c51462c197524903 Author: Andrey Grozin <grozin@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2017-10-24 11:42:16 +0000 Commit: Andrey Grozin <grozin@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2017-10-24 11:42:16 +0000 dev-util/diffoscope: bump to 87, add USE flags Suggested-by: Karl-Johan Karlsson <creideiki+gentoo-bugzilla@lysator.liu.se> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/635154 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.11, Repoman-2.3.3 dev-util/diffoscope/Manifest | 1 + dev-util/diffoscope/diffoscope-87.ebuild | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ dev-util/diffoscope/metadata.xml | 27 +++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 87 insertions(+) |
Created attachment 499752 [details] ebuild with dependencies on external tools dev-util/diffoscope is quite useless without its external tools, and discovering which tools it can use is non-trivial for a user. Would it be a good idea to include that information in USE flags and RDEPEND? It's a similar situation to automagic dependencies, since Diffoscope will use the tools if they are installed, regardless of the setting of the USE flags. On the other hand, nothing will actually break. I read the source code (diffoscope/external_tools.py) and put together a list of all external tolls it can use that are present in Gentoo. See attached ebuild (which is also a bump to version 87).