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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:54:57 +0200
From: Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
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Subject: extraneous package depends?
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Hi,

I do my own package builds using "make package" and for a while I've 
been noticing packages having odd dependencies attached to them.  Taking 
one for example, devel/gamin, here's what I get:

> $ pkg_info -r gamin-0.1.10_4.tbz
> Information for gamin-0.1.10_4.tbz:
>
> Depends on:
> Dependency: python26-2.6.6
> Dependency: perl-5.10.1_2
> Dependency: pkg-config-0.25_1
> Dependency: pcre-8.10
> Dependency: libiconv-1.13.1_1
> Dependency: gettext-0.18.1.1
> Dependency: glib-2.24.2

Taking a closer look at the contents of this package reveals no 
dependence on python, perl, or pkg-config though.

In desperation to rid my packages of perl and python dependence I hacked 
a bit in Mk/bsd.port.mk, removing line 5509:

> [ -z "$$packagelist" ] || ${AWK} -F '( |:)' 'BEGIN { pkgname="broken_contents" } /@pkgdep / { pkgname=$$2 } /@comment DEPORIGIN:/ { printf "%s:%s\n", pkgname, $$3; pkgname="broken_contents" }' $$packagelist;

Which results in:

> $ pkg_info -r gamin-0.1.10_4.tbz
> Information for gamin-0.1.10_4.tbz:
>
> Depends on:
> Dependency: pkg-config-0.25_1
> Dependency: gettext-0.18.1.1
> Dependency: glib-2.24.2

Which also corresponds with "make run-depends-list" and devel/gamin's 
Makefile.  I'm guessing pkg-config is getting added by bsd.gnome.mk.

So this boils down to two questions:

1.  What is the correct fix for the above?
2.  Is it necessary to have packages depend on pkg-config, a build tool, 
when they won't be building anything? (should I ask on freebsd-gnome@?)


Thanks,
Aragon