[gentoo-dev] perl/openssl circular dep, possible solution (python/perl/db devs please read)

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

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The bug hit me while working with GLI last night, and now I really do
need a solution for it. Looking at the dep tree to see why perl pulls
in openssl, the critical parts of the tree are this:

(Trimmed to make things shorter)
[ebuild  N    ]     dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r4  +berkdb 
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2  +java
[ebuild  N    ]       dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01-r2
(glibc, gcc, gcc-config, portage)
[ebuild  N    ]            dev-lang/python-2.4.1  +berkdb +ssl
[ebuild  N    ]             dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7g

This suggests the following solutions:
1. split berkdb support out of perl.
2. split ssl support out of python.
3. split java support out of db.

#1 may be possible with mcumming's minimal perl (untested by me)
#2 appears to work (tested via package.use having 'python -ssl', and looking at 'emerge -e -p system')
#3 appears to work (tested via package.use having 'db -java', and looking at 'emerge -e -p system')

I tried implementing #3, but the ebuild work involved is very messy, and
non-ideal, as a large part of db is then built twice.

Could the python and perl folk please comment here on the possibility of moving
those chunks (berkdb/ssl) of their packages to seperate packages?

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