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Date:      Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:30:42 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 221770] textproc/p5-XML-Parser: build fails: /usr/local/bin/perl5.24.2 not found
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--- Comment #2 from MMacD <scratch65535@att.net> ---
(In reply to Jan Beich from comment #1)
No, it fails because it can't find bin/perl5.24.2.  And given the 345,678 p5
ports listed, I've no clue which one would populate that subtree.

One of the things I've noticed is that config options never include the cho=
ice
of excluding some functionality, xml or sound or some other thing, complete=
ly.=20
The only options are what *kind* of sound or xml or whatever.  I haven't
counted, but Firefox must have at least 100 dependencies, few of which have
much to do with fetching and displaying web pages (what critical role does =
perl
play, for example?).  And because of the huge number of non-optional "optio=
ns",
and the lack of resources to do QA, it's a crapshoot whether something will
build without bugs, or even at all.=20

Maybe it would be good policy to coarsen the granularity of the config choi=
ces?
Offer them at the functional level, not the mere-flavoring one?

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