Created attachment 381946 [details] emerge --info get_flash_videos I tried to d/l a video from vimeo with get_flash_videos. It complains that XML::Simple is missing. *** $> get_flash_videos http://vimeo.com/26818646 Downloading http://vimeo.com/26818646 Using method 'vimeo' for http://vimeo.com/26818646 Must have XML::Simple to download 1 videos *** The ebuild file states that the XML lib is an "optional dependency" - see below. What does "optional dependency" mean? Did I forget to set a certain USE flag somewhere? I tried #> revdep-rebuild -vip #> emerge -p get_flash_videos but none of the commands take any action here. After manually emerging I get a different error message but -IMO - thats no matter here. *** src_prepare() { DISABLE_AUTOFORMATTING="yes" DOC_CONTENTS="Downloading videos from RTMP server requires the following packages: - media-video/rtmpdump - dev-perl/Tie-IxHash Other optional dependencies: - dev-perl/XML-Simple - dev-perl/Crypt-Rijndael - dev-perl/Data-AMF - virtual/perl-IO-Compress" # 405761 epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-youtubefix.patch perl-module_src_prepare } ***
"optional dependency" means "runtime dependency" means "you need to install it yourself". portage does not yet have runtime use deps to handle this case, and adding use flags means unnecessary rebuilding.
