[gentoo-user] Re: Latest LLVM wants to pollute my machine with VIM stuff.....

[Holger Hoffstätte]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:33:10 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote:

> Hi all,
> 	I'm still trying to come to grips with understanding ebuilds so please
> bear with me if this is a simple question. I've just sync'd and then
> done an
>
> 	emerge --ask -NuD world
>
> I have LLVM/clang installed and upon browsing the updates saw
> app-vim/llvm-vim. This is some sort of syntax highlighting thingy for
> Vim. I don't have Vim installed so went into the llvm-4.0.0 ebuild and
> saw the line
>
> PDEPEND="app-vim/llvm-vim
>
> My understanding is that PDEPEND means that something, in this case
> llvm-vim, will be installed after the update of llvm - correct? If so, I
> can't see any way of "turning this off" as I don't want even more junk
> installed on my machine.
>
> 	Have I understood the ebuild correctly and it could do with a "fiddle"
> so that it doesn't force this install?

Yes, it could - I wondered the same thing. File an enhancement request
in bugzilla so that vim support can be optional via the already existing
"vim" USE flag.

In the meantime try:
$echo "app-vim/llvm-vim-9999" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided

This tells portage that the package is installed as version 9999, so
any future llvm/clang updates won't try to update it.

-h