Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:46:41 +0800 From: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org> To: Matthew Hunt <mph@pobox.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports Team <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ville Eerola <ve@sci.fi> Subject: Re: Fetchmail and Python Message-ID: <199806110646.OAA16852@hsw.grc.com.tw> In-Reply-To: Message of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:05:53 -0400." <19980610230553.A3922@flarn.dyn.ml.org>
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In message <19980610230553.A3922@flarn.dyn.ml.org>, Matthew Hunt writes: >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 run fetchmail, procmail and pop server on a minimum mailserver system that does not need Python, X, Tk etc. It normally does not even have a display or keyboard attached - it just sits there and works. I would sooner the default be absolute minimum installation and have to "make -D<something>" to install the optional extras. --- Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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