Bug 49026, "Where is /usr/bin/xpdf ?" was exactly the problem I encountered. Hidden in the emerge output was the message that xpdf would not be built. This is a huge documentation failure. If the xpdf packge does not build the xpdf program then why do dependencies exist at all? This bug report is asking for better documentation or a NO_USE=motif flag. This is not a bug report about the xpdf application. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. remove motif from your use flags 2. emerge xpdf 3. Actual Results: /usr/bin/xpdf is not created. This is a very misleading result very much at odds with the expected portage dependancy philosophy. Expected Results: The software should have installed one of the motif family package, lestif or motif, then built the xpdf program. It seems some people don't want the overhead of motif and I can understand that. For those people, there should be an inverted USE=motif flag, NOUSE=motif? so the package won't be installed. This would restore the original xpdf package and still let people exclude the package if they don't want it. This is not a trivial problem. I am an experienced Unix admin and anything that wastes my time without a BIG warning hurts the Gentoo world. Thanks for your consideration.
i think it's a good idea, changed that in -r6
I do belive it's still a documentation failure. It turns out alot of programs, including KDE's graphics packages, use many components inside the xpdf package. Now, granted, if the non-X11 parts of xpdf were seperated into xpdf-tools, or another ebuild be made so that if motif was not in the USE flags, xpdf-tools would be used and not xpdf proper -- and alot of folks wouldn't be complaining about things being one way or another.
In all of this profiles `motif` USE flag is inside make.defaults: default-linux/ppc/1.0 default-linux/ppc/1.2 default-linux/ppc/1.4 default-linux/ppc/1.0_rc default-linux/x86/gcc2 default-linux/x86/xbox default-linux/x86/gcc31 default-linux/x86 default-linux/x86/2004.0 default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34/2.6 default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34 default-linux/x86/2004.2 default-linux/x86/2004.3 default-linux/ia64/2004.3 default-linux/hppa/2004.2 default-linux/s390 default-linux/amd64/gcc34-2004.2 default-linux/alpha default-linux/alpha/2004.3 default-linux/sparc/sparc32/2004.3 default-linux/sparc/sparc32/2005.0 default-linux/sparc/sparc64/gcc34/2004.3 default-linux/sparc/sparc64 default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.2 default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3/alsa default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3 So you almost always will have xpdf installed, you dont want it? Ok, this is why `/etc/portage/package.use` exist or not? :-P See Bug 83317 and Bug 85315
