Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:11:07 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd packages going the debian way! Message-ID: <20181012221107.58e93643@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20181012174553.ef4e8faf.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <c9c745f73af795583f1cdb568b68eef6@kathe.in> <20181012174553.ef4e8faf.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:45:53 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:42:37 +0000, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > i have been tinkering around with mailing system options under > > freebsd and have found most of the options are dependent on entire > > unnecessary bloated external components. > > eg.; > > - fetchmail depends on python, why? > > I think because of the fetchmailconf X11 tool, that one > actually requires Python - fetchmail itself doesn't. So > in this case, you are much better _not_ using the package > (where the default building options don't fit your needs > or expectations), and go with "make configure", select > only the stuff that you _actually_ want, and then run > "make install". It's strange, the python dependency seems to be unconditional when I would have expected it to be conditional on the X11 option (which is off by default). This may be a mistake. > > - nmh depends on curl and libhttp, why? > > Seems to be something new. Older versions didn't need it. Seems to be for OAUTH authentication, currently just for sending though gmail by the look of it.
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