Hi, on brand new Gentoo-Prefix install after installing @system I went to install layman. It pulled in 48 packages, seemingly one of them was dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL. >>> Recording app-portage/layman in "world" favorites file... * Messages for package dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.40.0: * This package is deprecated by upstream as equivalent support for SSL and * STARTTLS is available with Net::SMTP 2.35, found in: * >=virtual/perl-libnet-1.28 ( >=dev-lang/perl-5.20.0 ) * Subsequently, this package is only available for compatibility reasons, and * should be avoided in new code. Seems all DEPENDs should be protected by conditional on <dev-lang/perl. $ find /apps/gentoo/usr/portage -name \*.ebuild | xargs grep -H Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-perl/Email-Send-Gmail/Email-Send-Gmail-0.330.0.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL" /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-perl/Email-Sender/Email-Sender-1.300.16.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-perl/Email-Sender/Email-Sender-1.300.30.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-perl/Email-Sender/Email-Sender-1.300.31.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-2.13.6.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-2.14.3.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-2.15.1.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-2.16.0.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-2.16.1.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-2.16.2.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r1.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r2.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-9999-r3.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/dev-vcs/git/git-9999.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL /apps/gentoo/usr/portage/sci-biology/GBrowse/GBrowse-2.48-r1.ebuild: dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL $ Hmm, overlay trees shall be cleaned up too.
Its not as simple as avoiding a DEPEND. Due to Perl modules doing a kind of dependency resolution at runtime, removing Net::SMTP::SSL as a DEPEND also requires some kind of minor code change. ( The code change has negligible effect now, but you still need the module as a compat shim to avoid "uuuh, deps not satisified" cases. So anything that has it in DEPEND needs its code audited before it can be deemed safe to remove it from DEPEND.
Rdeps updated lately: https://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/genrdeps/rindex/dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL dev-perl/Email-Send-Gmail-0.330.0 dev-perl/Email-Sender-1.300.16 sci-biology/GBrowse-2.48-r1:!minimal Email-Send-Gmail: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130091 Latest versions of Email-Sender already updated and this dep goes away when stabilization/cleanup passes happen. GBrowse will be sticky ... so I'll file a bug for sci team to deal with.
In package.deprecated
