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Date:      Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:17:34 GMT
From:      Thomas Zander <thomas.e.zander@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/164380: audiacity-devel should not forcefully depend on JACK
Message-ID:  <201201221917.q0MJHYTa093232@red.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <201201221920.q0MJK9wm072790@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         164380
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       audiacity-devel should not forcefully depend on JACK
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 22 19:20:09 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Thomas Zander
>Release:        
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>Environment:
>Description:
In the process of updating the ports to audacity-1.3.14 the port maintainer introduced a LIB_DEPENDS to JACK.

For many users, JACK is an utterly useless extra dependency that is not required for essential functions in audacity.
I would prefer to avoid polluting my system with extra dependencies that don't yield noticeable benefit.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
The core problem presumably is the fact that audacity's build system does not have something like a "--without-jack" switch which we can use to turn it off via OPTIONS. However, this problem also caused some debate a while ago in other corners of the open source planet and the Gentoo maintainers seem to have solved it by tweaking audacity's configure.in and generate a new configure script from that which DOES have the "--without-jack" switch. We could do that, too. Then we can introduce the necessary OPTIONS in our port.

Bug report showing the problem in Gentoo:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210415

Diff to the configure.in script:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=144482&action=diff


If you need anything more to get this to work, I am happy to assist and test.

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