No rubies for me, yet (recent portage pulls in ruby)

eccerr0r

I noticed my machines suddenly requiring ruby (the programming language) to be installed. I didn't really want it to be installed, but emerge -tv didn't tell me what was pulling it in. Apparently an ebuild changed underneath and now requires this package.

The culprit package: thin-provisioning-tools, required by lvm2 +thin

I recalled it had been able to build with +thin before but now requires ruby. While I do run VM's I don't quite require overcommitting hard disk space just yet, so I don't need thin provisioning, hence to stop ruby from being pulled in, USE=-thin.

I had other machines that don't even have logical volumes, but wants cryptsetup (laptop), I need USE=-thin as well to save a bit of disk space.

Just in case anyone was wondering why all of a sudden ruby was needed and don't want to burn the disk space...
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Target · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 200

Thanks for that. I never like seeing "N" creep in the update list when I haven't changed anything.

Looks like thin-provisioning-tools doesn't even use ruby day-to-day, but just for the test suite. I don't think portage even runs those tests.

wuzzerd · Guru Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 467 Location: New Mexico

Thanks, I've been scratching my head about this one for several weeks now.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21918

If Ruby is only used for the test suite, and not for any other purpose, it ought to be guarded by a USE query on test. It seems robbat did exactly this on 15 Nov 2013, but only in the testing bump =sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1. If you need USE=thin, you may want to keyword the -r1 version so that you can avoid the Ruby dependencies.

wuzzerd · Guru Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 467 Location: New Mexico

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:19 pm Post subject:

ruby gets pulled in by a few odd packages.

I use mkvtoolnix which pulls in rake, which pulls in ruby.

If not sure who has pulled it in, emerge -cpv should tell you what is holding that package.

wuzzerd · Guru Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 467 Location: New Mexico

emerge -cpv ruby
--- Couldn't find 'ruby' to depclean.

Which make sense since it was cleaned yesterday. This seems to be the right tool to drill down and find the culprit. Thanks.

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2013 7:50 pm Post subject:

More rubies...

It looks like webkit-gtk-1.8.3-* is the last version of webkit-gtk that did not require ruby?

Hmm... still researching what needs webkit-gtk. epiphany needs to be masked....

Sigh. I will take systemd as "progressive change" but not ruby.

EDIT:

It looks likes webkit-gtk has a DEPEND but not RDEPEND on ruby, so though it requires rubygems I think it can be removed after building...

It's a little better than having a runtime dependency but build is still annoying...
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toofastforyahuh · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 171

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497502

Did not see a bug report, so I filed a bug here. Please review and chime in.
Agree, pulling in ruby is absurd.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21918

Assuming that comment #2 is accurate, this is not a bug, but rather an obnoxious decision by upstream webkit-gtk developers. Gentoo is merely reflecting the consequences of upstream's decision to use Ruby as a core component of their build system.

Aiken · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 11:17 pm Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 12:06 am Post subject:

Argh. I can't --depclean ruby after installing webkit-gtk :(