[gentoo-user] Re: More emerge auto-bloat

[Grant Edwards]

On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:


> Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required by
> the 'atril' pdf viewer.  Why does it suddenly require texlive?
> There's a 'dvi' use flag which understandably would require tex stuff,
> but that flag is not set.

Can somebody explain the point of a dependancy like this in an ebuild?

COMMON_DEPEND="
...
        virtual/tex-base
        dvi? (
                virtual/tex-base
                t1lib? ( >=media-libs/t1lib-5:5 )
        )
...