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  • [gentoo-dev] Re: sys-libs/glibc: RDEPENDs

    From Sam James@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 31 19:10:01 2023
    On 31 Mar 2023, at 17:07, Raul Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org> wrote:

    Hello,
    I was looking at the glibc [ebuild](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.37-r1.ebuild#n136)
    and noticed that it contains a lot of RDEPEND:
    RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
    app-arch/gzip
    sys-apps/grep
    app-alternatives/awk
    sys-apps/gentoo-functions
    !<app-misc/pax-utils-${MIN_PAX_UTILS_VER}
    !<net-misc/openssh-8.1_p1-r2
    "
    Are gzip, grep, awk just legacy from before the EAPI7 era, or does
    glibc actually invoke grep, awk, etc? I'm working in a cross-compiled environment (not cross- packages) and wanted to avoid pulling in the additional dependencies if they aren't necessary.


    I suspect some of these may be IDEPEND candidates for locale-gen.

    Thanks,
    Raul

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  • From Sam James@21:1/5 to Raul Rangel on Fri Mar 31 21:50:01 2023
    Raul Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org> writes:

    On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 11:03 AM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:



    On 31 Mar 2023, at 17:07, Raul Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org> wrote:

    Hello,
    I was looking at the glibc
    [ebuild](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.37-r1.ebuild#n136)
    and noticed that it contains a lot of RDEPEND:
    RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
    app-arch/gzip
    sys-apps/grep
    app-alternatives/awk
    sys-apps/gentoo-functions
    !<app-misc/pax-utils-${MIN_PAX_UTILS_VER}
    !<net-misc/openssh-8.1_p1-r2
    "
    Are gzip, grep, awk just legacy from before the EAPI7 era, or does
    glibc actually invoke grep, awk, etc? I'm working in a cross-compiled
    environment (not cross- packages) and wanted to avoid pulling in the
    additional dependencies if they aren't necessary.


    I suspect some of these may be IDEPEND candidates for locale-gen.

    https://bugs.gentoo.org/740750#c12 sheds a bit of light. It looks like /usr/sbin/locale-gen is a bash script that invokes grep, awk etc.
    Hence the reason for the RDEPEND. What are your thoughts on splitting
    off locale-gen into its own package, or adding a USE flag to
    conditionally install locale-gen?

    I'd personally be open to it (without having investigated it) but
    I'd need to see what dilfridge@ and others think first.

    (The main thing I'm wondering is why it isn't already, as it feels
    natural).

    Could you maybe file a new bug with that suggestion (and reference
    the other one)?


    As for the IDEPEND I put together https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/78edfcea3d38d869dff85ff2b2109f53b3137fa2?diff=split.
    I haven't tested it since I don't have an EAPI8 capable system
    available right now :/

    I think this looks right, actually. Fancy doing a PR (mark it as a
    draft) and I can take it from there?


    Thanks,
    Raul

    best,
    sam


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