[sys-libs/glibc](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.37-r1.ebuild#n136) currently defines app-arch/gzip, sys-apps/grep, app-alternatives/awk, and sys-apps/gentoo-functions as RDEPENDs. libc.so doesn't actually depend on these, but it's really the locale-gen bash script that does. By splitting the package, we can reduce the number of RDEPENDS on such a critical library. This also makes it easier to bootstrap glibc into an empty ROOT because we don't end up with a circular dependency. https://bugs.gentoo.org/740750 had some concerns about adding the RDEPENDs, I think this proposal will fix that. Reproducible: Always
See also the thread at https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=168029168626192&w=2. I think this is probably worth doing.
Work in progress, see https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=f2d625742780788bca38a4cc976fe2b515ecde3b
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=2cb5d0e2319f88c99f7a1a55b74fea0a3066a6d2 commit 2cb5d0e2319f88c99f7a1a55b74fea0a3066a6d2 Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-05-07 00:01:43 +0000 Commit: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-05-07 00:02:07 +0000 sys-libs/glibc: switch to external locale-gen Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/903649 Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> sys-libs/glibc/glibc-9999.ebuild | 33 +++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
We still need to drop it from RDEPEND and move it purely into IDEPEND.
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=52550140979f0ea48acd4dde2b6c7ef292629e28 commit 52550140979f0ea48acd4dde2b6c7ef292629e28 Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2023-05-08 21:28:54 +0000 Commit: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2023-05-08 21:29:33 +0000 sys-libs/glibc: drop locale-gen from RDEPEND Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/903649 Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> sys-libs/glibc/glibc-9999.ebuild | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
commit 8686f981cd3d2c54826f377138ff793295c5e15d (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) Author: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: Wed May 10 21:14:22 2023 +0200 Commit: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> CommitDate: Wed May 10 21:14:54 2023 +0200 sys-libs/glibc: keyword 2.37-r3 Signed-off-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.37-r3.ebuild | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Awesome, thanks!
