> On 31 Mar 2023, at 17:07, Raul Rangel <rran...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I was looking at the glibc
> [ebuild](https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.37-r1.ebuild#n136)
> and noticed that it contains a lot of RDEPEND:
> RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
> app-arch/gzip
> sys-apps/grep
> app-alternatives/awk
> sys-apps/gentoo-functions
> !<app-misc/pax-utils-${MIN_PAX_UTILS_VER}
> !<net-misc/openssh-8.1_p1-r2
> "
> Are gzip, grep, awk just legacy from before the EAPI7 era, or does
> glibc actually invoke grep, awk, etc? I'm working in a cross-compiled
> environment (not cross- packages) and wanted to avoid pulling in the
> additional dependencies if they aren't necessary.
>
I suspect some of these may be IDEPEND candidates for locale-gen.
> Thanks,
> Raul
