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On 2/27/25 9:43 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:

I did a routine update today (which I do most days):

emerge --sync
emerge -auvND world
emerge --depclean --ask

That last command removed 50 packages! [listed below]

It looks like that's allmost all the result of the libreoffice-bin
upgrade from 24.2.7.2 to 24.8.4. Looking at the two ebuild files show
about 50 fewer RDEPENDs in 24.8.4.

Does Libreoffice no longer use all those libraries? Or are they
somehow now getting bundled up in the "bin" part part of the package?

Back in the day, libreoffice-bin was a version of libreoffice that was
built by Gentoo developers against Gentoo packages, and hosted as a
prebuilt tarball. It required specific dependency versions of various
things.

Since the official binhost introduction -- which automatically builds app-office/liberoffice for gnome and KDE profiles -- there is decreased
value in pre-building it manually like this. At the same time, the
maintainers started thinking about using the upstream Libreoffice
prebuilt binaries (which are good for various use cases such as testing
a bug report against a baseline that libreoffice developers can compare
with). It's actually pretty common that most *-bin packages are about
upstream prebuilt binaries.

So basically what happened is that libreoffice-bin now bundles all its dependencies.


--
Eli Schwartz

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