Bug 662104

Summary:	sys-devel/llvm: introduce 'utils' use flag for additional utility scripts
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christian Strahl <c.a.strahl>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	LLVM support project <llvm>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jstein, mgorny
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662106
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christian Strahl 2018-07-25 13:40:07 UTC

At the moment the llvm ebuild installs utility scripts which needs additional packages to run.

This is documented via an elog post installation message:

  * You can find additional opt-viewer utility scripts in:
  *   //usr/lib/llvm/6/share/opt-viewer
  * To use these scripts, you will need Python 2.7 along with the following
  * packages:
  *   dev-python/pygments (for opt-viewer)
  *   dev-python/pyyaml (for all of them)


I suggest to introduce a 'utility' use flag for this package.

If the flag is unset, the utility scripts shouldn't be installed.
If its set, the utility scripts should be installed and the runtime deps should be pulled in as well.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2018-08-07 07:41:37 UTC

Not without runtime-switchable flags.  Otherwise, we'll end up having people rebuild whole LLVM just because they missed the flag.