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Date:      Mon, 01 Jul 2002 18:24:57 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        Jim Mock <jim@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/irc/xchat Makefile
Message-ID:  <3D207449.FD9306B7@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200206302228.g5UMSBnu053305@freefall.freebsd.org> <200207011108.09435.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>

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Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 30 June 2002 06:28 pm, Jim Mock wrote:
> = jim         2002/06/30 15:28:11 PDT
> =
> =   Modified files:
> =     irc/xchat            Makefile
> =   Log:
> =   Add a WITH_PYTHON knob.
> 
> Thanks! This reminds me of the the textproc/libxml2 and
> textproc/libxslt, which require Python by default, and should, IMO, be
> reverted to making the use of Python optional. This ports are required
> by both KDE and Gnome, which are general purpose desktop environments
> and do not otherwise need Python to function, AFAIK.

This is wrong. GNOME2 core bits (libglade2) require libxml2 with
Python support, so that if Python support will be opt-in it would be
impossible to build GNOME2 packages on bento or on user's machine
without WITH_PYTHON flag being set explicitly.

> If the maintainers do not object, I can pull the switch myself at some
> point.

Don't Do That[tm] (see above).

-Maxim

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