Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:03:50 +0200 From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/gettext Makefile Message-ID: <AFC1A5BE-F842-11D8-AC6A-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com> In-Reply-To: <20040827152957.GC59283@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > See my email to freebsd-ports asking about the dependacy on > textproc/expat2 (Message-ID: <20040823042724.GA64310@dragon.nuxi.com>) > > The define "HAVE_LIBEXPAT" is the knob gettext uses to specify that > 'expat' is available. The problem is only > gettext-tools/src/x-glade.c refers to "HAVE_LIBEXPAT"; but x-glade.c > never makes it into any of the libs that I can find. > > I'l look into seeing how devel/popt could use something that never makes > it into the gettext libs. See my email to Kris asking what he would > like > done. Guess what: the port installs a little more than just libraries. While it may be nice the debianize the port, it currently isn't. As for the mail to Kris: I guess I just came up with two reason for the need of the dependency, or do you need more examples? > BTW, I would have thought that members of portmgr would be on the > freebsd-ports list and you could have offered your knowledge before I > accidently forced you to. :-( While we are pretty active on freebsd-ports@ and trying to give advice, nobody can answer *every* mail. This is the point of the whole mentorship stuff: port committers are expected to have some expertise. I could tell you at least three methods to find out which part of devel/gettext references libexpat, but I'm pretty sure you know all of them yourself (or at least I hope so). So instead of having others do the work for you, you could have done some research and come up with an answer yourself. With ~ 4200 ports depending directly or indirectly on gettext, experience should have told you to be careful. Probably a heads-up to portmgr: "I believe the dependency of gettext on libexpat is superfluous, do you think it could be removed?" would have been the better strategy here... -Oliver
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