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On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 02:39:48PM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> During my regular update, I see that net-dns/bind-tools is upgrading |
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> from 9.14 to 9.16, and that's triggering the installation of _17_ new |
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> packages (all apparently related to sphinx and Babel). |
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> Is this sort of dependency bloat really necessary? |
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> The "doc" flag for bind-tools is not set, so why does it demand that |
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> sphinx be installed? |
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Sphinx is required (BDEPEND [1]) to build the man page, as commented in the |
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ebuild [2]: |
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# sphinx required for man-page and html creation |
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BDEPEND="${PYTHON_DEPS} |
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dev-python/sphinx |
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virtual/pkgconfig" |
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> Does bind-tools really need packages like sphinxcontrib-qthelp, |
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> sphinxcontrib-applehelp, sphinxcontrib-jsmath, sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp? |
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All of these are unfortunate consequences of Sphinx's hefty dependency list [3]. |
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It seems that as the manual pages are installed with the package (regardless of |
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the `doc` USE-flag), there is no way of mitigating this dependency bloat with |
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the bind-tools 9.16 series. Hopefully this can be addressed by the developers in |
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future. |
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[1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/#build-dependencies |
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[2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.4.ebuild#n39 |
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[3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-3.1.2.ebuild#n23 |
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