Greetings, When emerging www-app/mediawiki, I was getting x11-base/xorg-X11 pulled in. This was because in the tree of dependencies, the ebuild dev-lang/tk has a rdepend on virtual/x11. Now, the problem is that in my USE flag I had explicitly put in -X. It seems that emerge will ignore the USE flag setting when a package needs it as an rdepend. However, I would have expected emerge to have indicated that there is a conflict of interests between my wishes (USE -X) and those of a package that will be installed (tcltk's rdepend on virtual/x11) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Expected Results: Either: 1. Raised a error/warning along the lines of: Package dev-lang/tk needs virtual/x11 but USE -X indicates you don't want X installed. 2. Just ignore trying to emerge tcltk Step 2 is what I had to do, by specifying USE -tcktl, to get mediawiki to install... it seems a bit of a kludge.
I don't think this is a portage bug. Can you do a emerge -pv --tree www-app/mediawiki
sorry thats -pve --tree
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still think its 'feature' that x11 is being pulled in when I've got USE=-X set... as I said before, it would be a good idea to handle this edge case in a sensible manner (i.e. enhance/add a feture to portage to warn or ignore the request ro rdepend virtual/x11).
USE flags are for optional functionality in packages. You had USE="tcltk" which pdflib acted on by wanting to build that optional functionality. However, that optional functionality (which you've requested) unconditionally requires X11. USE="-X" on a lean X11-based system is not an unreasonable thing. If you want to prevent yourself from accidentally installing xorg-x11, you can add it to /etc/portage/package.mask.
