flatcar · krnowak · Feb 27, 2026 · Feb 27, 2026 · Feb 27, 2026 · Feb 27, 2026
@@ -346,11 +346,9 @@ dev-python/markupsafe
 dev-python/mdurl
 dev-python/more-itertools
 dev-python/msgpack
-dev-python/olefile
 dev-python/packaging
 dev-python/pathspec
 dev-python/pefile
-dev-python/pillow
 dev-python/pip
 dev-python/platformdirs
 dev-python/pluggy

@@ -34,3 +34,9 @@ llvm-core/clang-9999
 # Pulled in by sys-apps/texinfo, contains only an info file, which
 # will get masked anyway during installation.
 app-doc/info-manual-9999
+
+# Pillow is a dependency of docutils. Ebuild unconditionally requires
+# it, but docutils actually autodetects pillow. So let's skip it then
+# - it is only used for docs, which we don't ship in production
+# images.
+dev-python/pillow-9999
@@ -13,12 +13,6 @@ sys-libs/ncurses cxx
 # Pulls dev-python/sphinx, which in turn pulls a lot of other python stuff.
 sys-fs/btrfs-progs man
 
-# The dev-python/pillow package is pulled in by dev-python/docutils.
-# As the name suggests, it's for generating docs, which we don't even
-# put anywhere. Thus avoid pulling more dependencies than necessary
-# for throw-away things.
-dev-python/pillow jpeg
-
 # Gentoo force-enables X for app-emulation/qemu, because qemu is doing
 # some automagic detection of gtk ignoring whether we want to use gtk
 # or not. We don't have gtk on Flatcar, so it is not an issue here,