Mailing List Archive: dev-db/sqlite-3.32.3-r1 requires tcl ?!

I noticed when setting up my notebook that tcl got pulled in. The
culprit is dev-db/sqlite-3.32.3-r1. Note the "-tcl" USE flag.

[thimk][root][~] emerge -pv1 sqlite

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] dev-db/sqlite-3.32.3-r1:3::gentoo USE="readline -debug -doc -icu -secure-delete -static-libs -tcl -test -tools" 0 KiB

But sqlite-3.32.3-r1.ebuild shows...

=====================================
if [[ "${PV}" == "9999" ]]; then
BDEPEND=">=dev-lang/tcl-8.6:0
dev-vcs/fossil"
else
BDEPEND="app-arch/unzip
>=dev-lang/tcl-8.6:0"
fi
=====================================

Which is it? If tcl is required, then the "tcl" USE flag is misleading
and pointless, and should not show up.

--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

On 2020-08-08 10:57, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I noticed when setting up my notebook that tcl got pulled in. The
> culprit is dev-db/sqlite-3.32.3-r1. Note the "-tcl" USE flag.
>
> [thimk][root][~] emerge -pv1 sqlite
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild R ] dev-db/sqlite-3.32.3-r1:3::gentoo USE="readline
> -debug -doc -icu -secure-delete -static-libs -tcl -test -tools" 0 KiB
>
> But sqlite-3.32.3-r1.ebuild shows...
>
> =====================================
> if [[ "${PV}" == "9999" ]]; then
> BDEPEND=">=dev-lang/tcl-8.6:0
> dev-vcs/fossil"
> else
> BDEPEND="app-arch/unzip
> >=dev-lang/tcl-8.6:0"
> fi
> =====================================
>
> Which is it? If tcl is required, then the "tcl" USE flag is
> misleading
> and pointless, and should not show up.

BDEPEND indicates a build-time dependency on Tcl; I think SQLite3's
build
system has a hard dependency on Tcl. The "tcl" USE flag is likely
controlling whether or not the Tcl interface included with SQLite3 is
built and installed.

[I am not a maintainer of this package]