From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 10 23:48:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05843 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hsw.grc.com.tw (dial97.20365191.gcn.net.tw [203.65.191.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05833 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:48:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hsw@ms2.hinet.net) Received: from hsw.grc.com.tw (localhost.grc.com.tw [127.0.0.1]) by hsw.grc.com.tw (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16852; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:46:43 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from hsw@hsw.grc.com.tw) Message-Id: <199806110646.OAA16852@hsw.grc.com.tw> To: Matthew Hunt cc: FreeBSD Ports Team , Ville Eerola From: Christopher Hall Reply-to: Christopher Hall Subject: Re: Fetchmail and Python In-reply-to: Message of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:05:53 -0400." <19980610230553.A3922@flarn.dyn.ml.org> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0 X-Mailer: exmh 2.0 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 14:46:41 +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <19980610230553.A3922@flarn.dyn.ml.org>, Matthew Hunt writes: >Ville Eerola 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" to install the optional extras. --- Christopher Hall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message