Bug 837665

Summary:	[TRACKER] packages that depends on sys-fs/e2fsprogs[tools]
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	ta2002 <throw_away_2002>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	837668
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Description ta2002 2022-04-10 15:35:07 UTC

With the removal of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-libs, and the addition of the "tools" USE flag to build the ext2fs headers, some packages will fail to build without the tools USE flag enabled (see bug 833110, for example). I don't understand the rationale for ever building e2fsprogs without tools, but I assume that some reason exists for it.

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2022-04-10 15:39:25 UTC

(In reply to ta2002 from comment #0)
> With the removal of sys-fs/e2fsprogs-libs, and the addition of the "tools"
> USE flag to build the ext2fs headers, some packages will fail to build
> without the tools USE flag enabled (see bug 833110, for example). I don't
> understand the rationale for ever building e2fsprogs without tools, but I
> assume that some reason exists for it.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/806875#c2 is why.

Comment 2 ta2002 2022-04-10 15:43:52 UTC

(In reply to Sam James from comment #1)
> (In reply to ta2002 from comment #0)

> https://bugs.gentoo.org/806875#c2 is why.

That certainly makes sense, although I would have handled it with a "minimal" USE flag that (implicitly) warns the user that expected functionality might not exist in a package built with that flag.