dropbox needs RDEPEND on ncurses:5/5 about jorgicio-gentoo-overlay HOT 5 CLOSED

As I noticed, Dropbox uses its own curses implementation. Even in the official Gentoo repos, it does not need ncurses as a dependency. I think more information is needed, because it does not happen here.

from jorgicio-gentoo-overlay.

well on my system dropbox doesn't install any ncurses libraries. And this preserved-rebuild entry happened on my system after a ncurses upgrade from 5.9 to 6.0. I don't think portage detects it if dropbox gets first installed when only ncurses 6.0 is installed

from jorgicio-gentoo-overlay.

ncurses is currently slotted, so check first what did you installed. If using unstable branch, it depends on which did you installed as required as a dependency. Try removing ncurses (both slots) and then do a emerge @world to install it itself if required.

from jorgicio-gentoo-overlay.

removing both ncurses:0 and ncurses:5 and doing a @world update after it just installs ncurses-6.0-r1.

this leave me with this preserved-rebuild entry:

>>> package: sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r101
 *  - /usr/lib32/libncurses.so.5
 *      used by /opt/dropbox/_curses.so (net-misc/dropbox-3.14.5)

one way or another, /opt/dropbox/_curses.so links against libncurses.so.5, so this binary has to be provided by something and this is all ncurses:/5 and 5.9-r3, 5.9-r4 packages for now (and none of the ncurses:/6 ones)

from jorgicio-gentoo-overlay.

As I noticed, that problem happened in previous versions of Dropbox (until 3.12, which was fixed). But I noticed that it happens again, so you're right. Fixed.

Thanks.

Please, resync.

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