On 2024-07-29, Eli Schwartz <eschwa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> It turns out dev-python/poetry has nothing to do with poetry, so my AI >> paranoia was unjustified (this time), but one wonders what devs are >> thinking when the decide they add dozens of new dependencies like >> that. Why does pip suddenly need to format (or produce?) both markdown >> and RTF when it's been able to get along fine without them for so many >> years? > > For many years, pip has contained bundled libraries. These libraries > recently got unbundled, and now you're installing a system copy.
Yep, I figured that was probably the answer. I (for one) would appreciate some sort of notice when such an unbundling happens so that I don't waste time trying to track down why emerge suddenly wants to install a bunch of new packages. I can't really come up with a good mechanism for that other than news items. > pip has always "needed to format (or produce?) both markdown and RTF", OK, now I'm genuinely curious: what does pip need to do with markdown and RTF? My first guess was that its man pages aren't written in nroff any more and somehow markdown was being used. [I already had at least one markdown implementation installed, but pip apparently demands a different one.] But there is no man page for pip. There are a bunch of documents in /usr/share/doc/pip-<ver>, but they're all reStructured Text. Oh well, I guess I should be thankful it didn't force LaTeX and pandoc installs. > but it also "needs" to use bundled libraries to do it without people > noticing that it does it. Some of those packages are only bdeps, > and you can feel free to e.g. delete poetry via > emerge -c --with-bdeps=n once you're done updating. I usually just leave bdeps installed. Otherwise that would remove 130 other packages as well (some of which take a looong time to build). -- Grant
