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Date:      Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:11:46 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/wine Makefile distinfo pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20111119151146.GA76169@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1111191535300.2265@gerinyyl>
References:  <201111191406.pAJE6mt2009634@repoman.freebsd.org> <20111119143327.GA69749@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.LFD.2.02.1111191535300.2265@gerinyyl>

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On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 04:00:55PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> Wine can, in principle build with TIFF support.  We have, however,
> never had the required libraries as a dependency.
> 
> (I am in general frugal in adding dependencies, or options, to ports.
> That increases complexity and in the end makes testing the full matrix
> impossible.)

Understood.  However, since libtiff is likely to be found on typical user's
desktop system (considering that wine is primarily a desktop application),
hardcoding libtiff as LIB_DEPENDS might be a nice alternative.  How useful
it is to have TIFF support in Wine?

./danfe



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