Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2020-07-20 11:31, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > On Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:20:47 GMT, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> Including the man page in the files directory would avoid this, although >> I don't know if this is considered good practice. > > Perhaps adding a man use flag which enabled by default? > The

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 04:36:05PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > i don't think that's the issue. The problem is that the man pages are not > included in the upstream package, only the source for them. So if you > want to be able to RTFM, you need a load of dependencies. Perhaps a solution from

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 17:31:04 +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > Including the man page in the files directory would avoid this, > > although I don't know if this is considered good practice. > > Perhaps adding a man use flag which enabled by default? i don't think that's the issue. The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:20:47 GMT, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Including the man page in the files directory would avoid this, although > I don't know if this is considered good practice. Perhaps adding a man use flag which enabled by default? -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:52:56 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Does bind-tools really need packages like sphinxcontrib-qthelp, > > sphinxcontrib-applehelp, sphinxcontrib-jsmath, > > sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp? > > All of these are unfortunate consequences of Sphinx's hefty dependency > list [3]. It

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 02:39:48PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > During my regular update, I see that net-dns/bind-tools is upgrading > from 9.14 to 9.16, and that's triggering the installation of _17_ new > packages (all apparently related to sphinx and Babel). > > Is this sort of dependency

[gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Grant Edwards
During my regular update, I see that net-dns/bind-tools is upgrading from 9.14 to 9.16, and that's triggering the installation of _17_ new packages (all apparently related to sphinx and Babel). Is this sort of dependency bloat really necessary? The "doc" flag for bind-tools is not set, so why