The net-print/hplip-3.15.4 ebuild lists dev-python/dbus-python in RDEPEND twice: once under fax? and once directly under !minimal. The dependency under !minimal will always clobber that under fax?, so it seems to make sense to remove one of them. Based on http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/other.html , fax? is the correct location for the dependency. For testing, I have removed the line directly under !minimal, ensured I don't have dev-python/dbus-python installed, and standard printing seems to work fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mask dbus on a bet 2. emerge hplip Actual Results: It should install, even with -minimal Expected Results: The dbus mask prevents dbus-python, preventing hplip. USE flags for my testing are "hpcups -X -doc -fax -hpijs -kde -libnotify -libusb0 -minimal -parport -policykit -qt4 -scanner -snmp -static-ppds"
Created attachment 401916 [details, diff] Local patch for ebuild which seems to work fine.
(In reply to S. Gilles from comment #0) > The net-print/hplip-3.15.4 ebuild lists dev-python/dbus-python in RDEPEND > twice: once under fax? and once directly under !minimal. The dependency > under !minimal will always clobber that under fax?, so it seems to make > sense to remove one of them. Based on > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/manual/distros/other.html , > fax? is the correct location for the dependency. > + 26 Apr 2015; Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org> hplip-3.15.4.ebuild: + Remove redundant dependency on dbus-python. This fixes bug #547578. Thanks to + S. Gilles for the report. Do not rely on the information provided at the above link but take a look in the code to check where dbus-python is required. You will find that there are a lot other places besides fax requiring dbus-python. It make sense however to remove it from the fax use flag as this is redundant.
