I use app-admin/ansible which depends on dev-python/netaddr. netaddr pulls ipython and all its deps (more than 60 packages) by default, because of the default enabled "cli" use flag. Would it make sense to make "cli" not a default for dev-python/netaddr to avoid pulling all these 60+ deps? I imagine cli use of netaddr is a rather special use case, but this is obviously a decision the package maintainer has to make.
I was surprised to find this large number of dependencies, noticed cli flag does nothing useful and found this bug. I'm with the bug reporter. Please remove it being default. See also https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/ (mentions that it USE flags shouldn't be used for runtime dependencies.)
Newly added dev-python/netaddr-1.0.0 again has enabled by default "cli" flag, causing the same unexpected dependencies to be introduced during the update.
commit 30f5a5def590108f228d7697aaec0b9935581a8e Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Feb 18 04:32:11 2024 +0100 dev-python/netaddr: Bump to 1.2.1 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
