notmuch currently pulls in sphinx unconditionally, even as runtime dependency. It's used to generate manpages and info files. While the man-pages are built only when USE="doc" is set, the info files get built unconditionally. This is how notmuch was installed: Installed versions: 0.29.3(0/5)^t(12:20:13 02/27/20)(crypt valgrind -doc -emacs -mutt -nmbug -python -test PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6 -python3_7") $ qlist notmuch /usr/bin/notmuch /usr/share/doc/notmuch-0.29.3/NEWS.bz2 /usr/share/doc/notmuch-0.29.3/README.bz2 /usr/share/doc/notmuch-0.29.3/AUTHORS.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-compact.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-search.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-hooks.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-config.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-search-terms.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-emacs-mua.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-properties.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-insert.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-reindex.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-count.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-tag.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-show.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-new.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-address.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-reply.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-dump.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch.info.bz2 /usr/share/info/notmuch-restore.info.bz2 /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_notmuch /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_email-notmuch /usr/include/notmuch.h /usr/lib64/libnotmuch.so.5.2.0 /usr/lib64/libnotmuch.so.5 /usr/lib64/libnotmuch.so Wouldn't it be better to completely skip building docs when USE="doc" isn't set and only pull in sphinx as BDEPEND when USE="doc" is set?
Franz: I have recently become the new maintainer for Gentoo's notmuch package. The linked pull request contains an updated ebuild that addresses your concerns. If you have the time to test it, I'd appreciate you letting me know the results. Thanks.
(In reply to Ralph Seichter from comment #1) > Franz: I have recently become the new maintainer for Gentoo's notmuch > package. The linked pull request contains an updated ebuild that addresses > your concerns. If you have the time to test it, I'd appreciate you letting > me know the results. Thanks. Ralph, thx for your work. Unfortunately I moved away from Gentoo, so I can't test it. I hope there are others who can give your changes a try. Regards Franz
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=76371e7a6fe33fc8ebd38b56d5ac45eed4af1e52 commit 76371e7a6fe33fc8ebd38b56d5ac45eed4af1e52 Author: Ralph Seichter <github@seichter.de> AuthorDate: 2020-05-22 16:37:45 +0000 Commit: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-05-23 13:45:41 +0000 net-mail/notmuch: Fix runtime dependencies * Updated ebuild for EAPI 7. * Fix: Earlier ebuild versions had unconditional dependencies on Sphinx and Texinfo even at runtime. Moved dependencies to BDEPEND and tied them to USE=doc. * Fix: Install Texinfo documentation only when USE=doc is specified. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/711052 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.99, Repoman-2.3.22 Signed-off-by: Ralph Seichter <gentoo@seichter.de> Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/15918 Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> net-mail/notmuch/notmuch-0.29.3-r2.ebuild | 230 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 230 insertions(+)
