[gentoo-user] RANT: I just installed another half an OS

[gentoo-user] RANT: I just installed another half an OS

[Walter Dnes]

  I have a bog-standard Dell desktop with an Intel graphics chip.  As
near as I can tell, mesa-24.1.3 with VIDEO_CARDS="intel" now pulls in
dev-util/intel_clc which pulls in dev-libs/libclc which pulls in a ton
of clang/llvm/spirv crap.  And what's an emerge without a whole bunch of
new python applets+libs being puuled in?

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Re: [gentoo-user] RANT: I just installed another half an OS

[Eli Schwartz]

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On 8/15/24 11:27 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I have a bog-standard Dell desktop with an Intel graphics chip.  As
> near as I can tell, mesa-24.1.3 with VIDEO_CARDS="intel" now pulls in
> dev-util/intel_clc which pulls in dev-libs/libclc which pulls in a ton
> of clang/llvm/spirv crap.  


If mesa upstream has decided that their intel card support is going to
use llvm at build time, I don't see what Gentoo is supposed to do about
that. Best we can do is avoid requiring it for USE flag configs where
upstream doesn't mandate it.

That being said, the binhost provides binary packages for llvm so I
don't really care when I discover a package needing it.


> And what's an emerge without a whole bunch of
> new python applets+libs being puuled in?


Entirely unsure what you mean by this, anyway. Do you happen to have an
example? Usually the only python applets+libs I have are the ones that
are already installed, which sometimes have new versions available but
those are upgrades, not new packages.


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Eli Schwartz


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