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Date:      Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:20:06 +0100
From:      Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: KDE and GNOME release packages do not play well together
Message-ID:  <4D890476.1050808@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201103221535.07015.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201103221535.07015.jhb@freebsd.org>

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John Baldwin ha scritto:
> This would appear to no longer be a supported use case in for 8.2 packages
> (and if you believe posts on the forums, 8.1 was equally broken).  Namely,
> some package the GNOME depends on wants to use unixODBC, and some other
> package that KDE depends on wants to use libiodbc.  The simplest suggestion in
> the forums appears to be to change the gnome package (devel/ptlib26) to use
> libiodbc instead.

Even if it could be simpler (is it?), I think unixODBC is a more common 
choice these days, so changing the KDE ports could be better.

A few stats:
- ports supporting both unixODBC and iODBC: 17
- ports supporting only unixODBC: 29
- ports supporting only iODBC: 8

I don't have personal experience, but the two ports should be completely 
interchangeable, so we could add support for USE_ODBC in 
bsd.databases.mk and allow the user to choose the odbc implementation 
(with one [unixODBC?] as default to create consistent packages).

-- 
Alex Dupre



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