I've just installed kde-apps/dolphin-plugins-4.14.3 with the following USE flags: % emerge -a kde-apps/dolphin-plugins [ebuild N ] kde-apps/dolphin-plugins-4.14.3 USE="git mercurial (-aqua) -bazaar -debug -subversion" All plugins are installed, both the actual plugin (.so file) and kde4/services desktop too: % equery files kde-apps/dolphin-plugins * Searching for dolphin-plugins in kde-apps ... * Contents of kde-apps/dolphin-plugins-4.14.3: /usr /usr/lib64 /usr/lib64/kde4 /usr/lib64/kde4/fileviewbazaarplugin.so /usr/lib64/kde4/fileviewdropboxplugin.so /usr/lib64/kde4/fileviewgitplugin.so /usr/lib64/kde4/fileviewhgplugin.so /usr/lib64/kde4/fileviewsvnplugin.so /usr/share /usr/share/config.kcfg /usr/share/config.kcfg/fileviewgitpluginsettings.kcfg /usr/share/config.kcfg/fileviewhgpluginsettings.kcfg /usr/share/config.kcfg/fileviewsvnpluginsettings.kcfg /usr/share/kde4 /usr/share/kde4/services /usr/share/kde4/services/fileviewbazaarplugin.desktop /usr/share/kde4/services/fileviewdropboxplugin.desktop /usr/share/kde4/services/fileviewgitplugin.desktop /usr/share/kde4/services/fileviewhgplugin.desktop /usr/share/kde4/services/fileviewsvnplugin.desktop
The dependencies are runtime-only, so technically they should not have USE flags at all. This leaves a few options: 1. Make the vcs dependencies mandatory since the plugins are installed unconditionally 2. Implement some downstream hacks to install the various plugins conditionally 3. Remove the use flags and replace with a post-install message. It would be worth double-checking what happens if the plugin gets activated but the vcs package is missing.
A fix was upstreamed and is now in dolphin-plugins-15.12.2:5 in tree.
i can confirm, thanks!
