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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:40:02
Message-Id: rf4abk$emn$1@ciao.gmane.io
1 During my regular update, I see that net-dns/bind-tools is upgrading
2 from 9.14 to 9.16, and that's triggering the installation of _17_ new
3 packages (all apparently related to sphinx and Babel).
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5 Is this sort of dependency bloat really necessary?
6
7 The "doc" flag for bind-tools is not set, so why does it demand that
8 sphinx be installed?
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10 Does bind-tools really need packages like sphinxcontrib-qthelp,
11 sphinxcontrib-applehelp, sphinxcontrib-jsmath, sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp?
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13 --
14 Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?! Ashley Dixon <ash@××××××××××.uk>