Bug 947666

Summary:	>=sys-apps/man-pages-6.02 should not depend on app-alternatives/bc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	C.Blake <charlechaud>
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:
Bug Blocks:	930798

Description C.Blake 2025-01-07 12:23:47 UTC

This first arose in bug 876935 .

Upstream discovered `expr` in
    https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=a2cf51894d2a3dc05823e37cdf15252b1cc087e6

which landed in version 6.0.2 in late 2022.

bc also remains no longer needed as of the upstream 6.9.1 and seems
unlikely to return.

{ Indeed, perhaps upstream will discover $(()) shell arithmetic for the
simple `TROFF_LINE_LENGTH := $(shell $(EXPR) $(MANWIDTH) - 2)` calculation?
Admittedly, makefile quoting probably makes such annoying. }

In any event, cognizant of bug 930798, this unneeded dep should be dropped
from the ebuild as part of bumping.