[gentoo-user] Re: More emerge auto-bloat
On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required >>> by the 'atril' pdf viewer. [...] >> >> That's the result of a questionable decision by Atril maintainers. >> It's since been fixed, and the 'synctex' feature which was pulling >> in all of texlive is now optional. > > FWIW, a patch and ebuild are now available to fix this and allow > atril 1.24 to be installed without texlive: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/736647 I forgot to mention that the patch/ebuild attached to the above bug eliminated all 49 of the new packags that emerge wanted to install this morning. It's a good day when 'emerge -auvND world' doesn't want to install new packages.
[gentoo-user] Re: More emerge auto-bloat
On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Much of it appears to be texlive, which is now apparently required by >> the 'atril' pdf viewer. [...] > > That's the result of a questionable decision by Atril maintainers. > It's since been fixed, and the 'synctex' feature which was pulling in > all of texlive is now optional. FWIW, a patch and ebuild are now available to fix this and allow atril 1.24 to be installed without texlive: https://bugs.gentoo.org/736647 -- Grant
[gentoo-user] Re: More emerge auto-bloat
On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards wrote: > [ usual whining ] > Forty-nine new packages?! > > 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. That's the result of a questionable decision by Atril maintainers. It's since been fixed, and the 'synctex' feature which was pulling in all of texlive is now optional. That fix has been committed, but not yet released. Meanwhile, I've found and tested a patch that obviates the need for installing texlive by making atril's synctex support optional. I've kludged an ebuild to remove the unconditional tex dependency and disable the synctex feature. That semms to work fine. I'd be happy to submit the patch and ebuild. I presume I should change the ebuild to make the synctex feature enable/disable conditional on a USE flag? It looks like there's already a 'synctex' USE flag, so I guess that should be easy enough. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: More emerge auto-bloat
On 2020-08-10 10:02, Grant Edwards wrote: > > 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 ) > ) It's a harmless mistake, the second one is redundant.
[gentoo-user] Re: More emerge auto-bloat
On 2020-08-10, Grant Edwards 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 ) ) ...
