On Mon, 21 May 2012 20:52:01 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Question: Is is true that the RUBY dependencies listed in the above > paste link are entirely due to adding documentation support > (specifically rdoc)? If so, can I tell portage to not install the rdoc > stuff? I have USE=-doc already.
Yes, this is true. We do this because normally ruby contains a copy of rdoc. We unbundle that and thus the external rdoc implementation is installed. You can control this with the rdoc USE flag on dev-lang/ruby, but note that not installing rdoc is probably considered broken by upstream. Kind regards, Hans