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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 1998 08:02:42 +0400
From:      =?koi8-r?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com>, FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Ville Eerola <ve@sci.fi>
Subject:   Re: Fetchmail and Python
Message-ID:  <19980611080242.A19319@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <19980610230553.A3922@flarn.dyn.ml.org>; from mph@pobox.com on Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:05:53PM -0400
References:  <19980610230553.A3922@flarn.dyn.ml.org>

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On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 11:05:53PM -0400, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> Ville Eerola <ve@sci.fi> has submitted an upgrade to his port
> of fetchmail, PR 6866.  Recent versions of fetchmail include a
> Python script for configuring fetchmail.
> 
> Ville has added a RUN_DEPENDS line for lang/python; I am concerned
> about this dependency, because it would require Python, Tk80, and
> X11 to be installed to install the fetchmail port, when they are
> only required for a non-essential component.
> 
> Opinions?  Would it be better to print a warning, stating that the
> configurator will fail if python is not installed?  Other ideas?

I am against RUN_DEPENDS on python too. I never touch my fetchmail
configuration written once years ago.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
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