Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:31:03 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Alex Dupre <ale@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE and GNOME release packages do not play well together Message-ID: <201103221631.03088.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4D890476.1050808@FreeBSD.org> References: <201103221535.07015.jhb@freebsd.org> <4D890476.1050808@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tuesday, March 22, 2011 4:20:06 pm Alex Dupre wrote: > 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). I'll defer judgement as to which approach is best. I'll just be happy so long as it is fixed in some fashion. A USE_ODBC= knob sounds sensible to me. -- John Baldwin
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