Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 11:23:14 -0700 From: Jason Helfman <jgh@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r302327 - head/games/glightoff Message-ID: <20120809182314.GA33828@dormouse.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <50235DED.5080902@FreeBSD.org> References: <201208090545.q795jEAS072648@svn.freebsd.org> <50235A07.8010606@FreeBSD.org> <CAMuy=%2Bgu%2BgT3cBNR5Kp-pVPVcY7rts79NyN4g=jkQGasyjxaKQ@mail.gmail.com> <50235DED.5080902@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:51:25PM -0700, Doug Barton thus spake: >On 08/08/2012 11:46 PM, Jason Helfman wrote: > >> USE_GNOME= glib20 gtk20 intltool >> >> already bring in pkgconf, and these require it to build. > >I get that. So let's assume that all of those are installed, and up to >date, but pkgconf is not on the system. What happens when the user tries >to build glightoff? > >Or put another way, if pkgconf is necessary for this port, what harm >will adding a build dep for it cause? > >> Also so this from bapt: >> >> More than that lots of ports do not even care about pkg-config because >> they do >> depend on glib20 or xproto which run depend on it. so fixing/changing >> USE_GNOME= >> pkgconfig cannot be done in one shot, too much impact. > >To the extent that I understand that, he was not saying "don't fix ports >that need a pkgconf build dep" he was saying that because glib20 and >xproto have (bogus) run deps on pkgconf _now_ they mask the true number >of ports that need the build dep. > >When the bogus run dep is gone we want all of the ports that need a >build dep to have it. > >Doug > I have opened up a dialog with the maintainer of this software, but it seems as though at this point in my discussion with him that is it neither a build or run dependency of the software. -jgh -- Jason Helfman FreeBSD Committer | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh | The Power To Serve
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