Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:50:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/55896: [NEWPORT] www/mozplugger Message-ID: <200309182150.h8ILoIlD035087@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/55896; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ceri Davies <ceri@FreeBSD.org>
To: FreeBSD Gnats Submit <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: ports/55896: [NEWPORT] www/mozplugger
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 22:45:34 +0100
Adding to audit trail, from misfiled PR ports/56009:
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:14:16 +0200
From: Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@webteckies.org>
Message-Id: <200308261914.31366.melvyn@webteckies.org>
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Hi Andrew,
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 01:56, Andrew J Caines wrote:
> Giving your PR[1] a try, I found a couple of problems with your shar: it
> tries to expract www/mozplugger instead of mozplugger (as I _think_ it
> should) and it fails to create any directories. See patch below to fix
> both.
Missed an argument there, sorry bout that. Thanx for the heads up.
> The port build went fine, but I had to stop before install because of the
> explicit list of ten runtime dependencies, some of which seemed
> arbitrarily version-specific, redundant or just unnecessary.
I'll explain what I did.
I took www/plugger and modified it. I added an option to optout of the Gnom=
e=20
Office suite, for "guys and gals like me", who fancy KDE.
I did the same for OpenOffice, but changed that default to OFF, since it=20
requires quite a machine to install and there seem to be no packages whenev=
er=20
I tried those.
> Are all these deps _really_ necessary?
No, but transition from www/plugger to www/modplugger should IMO initially =
not=20
generate any surprises.
>For example, why require mpg123 if
> you can support xmms, or xmp (which even has an xmms plugin)?
I don't see that as an improvement actually. Xmms pulls in gtk12, which I h=
ope=20
will be nuked some time soon - it's deadugly :). gtk12 already pulls in a l=
ot=20
of dependencies. I doubt (haven't checked) that the difference is that=20
significant.
> Also,
> requiring gv requires ghostview (which is a monster), but then also
> acroread5 even though gv can render PDF.
>
> Can some or all the currently required packages be optional with a
> sensible subset defined at build/install time, especially since the app
> itself is configurable?
Well - that is my goal. But there's no "configure" script and the installed=
=20
configuration file needs to make sense, which means I either:
1) Have to provide a set of 'extra-patch' for each dependency;
2) Have to remove the Makefile, install a configure.in / Makefile.am /=20
Makefile.in, and use autoconf/automake to accomplish the task.
I'd rather communicate with the current author of the package to see if we =
can=20
come up with a solution in the original software (that works not only for=20
=46reeBSD), than using the hacks above.
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Melvyn
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