wayland-scanner dependency [SOLVED]

figueroa · Last edited by figueroa on Wed Apr 07, 2021 3:56 am; edited 1 time in total

All of a sudden, this morning, I find wayland-scanner pulled in to my amd64 system as a default dependency of mesa and xorg-server, and a hard dependency of gtk+3. Why why?
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Andy Figueroa
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Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2719

(Edit: for gtk3 hard dep) no reason, it'll go away once someone has a 2nd look. bug #780561

That dependency is missing on a lot of packages so it may be getting added too fast sometimes. The rest are normal.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

It was just split out of wayland.

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2719

Thing was that wayland-scanner needs to be executed on the build machine when cross-compiling (including when building wayland itself), i.e. wayland goes in RDEPEND/DEPEND, and wayland-scanner in BDEPEND.

End of the day you're not really installing more things, it's just a bit more visible.

figueroa · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2021 3:18 pm Post subject:

Is the wayland-scanner tool useful or needed for anyone not using wayland? I don't have plans to use wayland in the near future (not saying never) so this woke me up. USE= -wayland satisfied xorg-server and mesa.

Thank you asturm and Ionen for your replies.
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Andy Figueroa
hp pavilion hpe h8-1260t/2AB5; spinning rust x3
i7-2600 @ 3.40GHz; 16 gb; Radeon HD 7570
amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop (stable), OpenRC, -systemd -pulseaudio -uefi

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2719

For gtk+:3, was fixed a few minutes ago.