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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2016 17:26:57 +1000
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Martin_Waschb=c3=bcsch?= <martin@waschbuesch.de>, Euan Thoms <euan@potensol.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Walter Schwarzenfeld <w.schwarzenfeld@utanet.at>
Subject:   Re: devel/sope: make (stage-qa) now fails with DEVELOPER=yes complaining about iconv dependency
Message-ID:  <a9c1c4ab-b040-5412-1570-b2ae9f34723a@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <A54D23F5-ABDB-48F9-B7E6-72EF3DA13DFA@waschbuesch.de>
References:  <7c8b-57880400-7-6b8b4580@127157238> <A54D23F5-ABDB-48F9-B7E6-72EF3DA13DFA@waschbuesch.de>

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On 15/07/2016 5:17 PM, Martin Waschbüsch wrote:
> 
>> Am 14.07.2016 um 23:29 schrieb Euan Thoms <euan@potensol.com>:
>> 
>> 
>> On Friday, July 15, 2016 01:11 SGT, Walter Schwarzenfeld
>> <w.schwarzenfeld@utanet.at> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think this statements should be only warnings. Cause not all
>>> of these statements are right and each maintianer should decide
>>> which "USES" or "LIB_DEPENDS" are necessairely and which not.
>> 
>> Well, I don't know enough to comment about whether it should be
>> classed as a warning or an error. But there's definetely a bug in
>> the ports Mk system, since adding USES+=iconv does not remove the
>> error. I don't think I even need iconv as a dependency, it should
>> be included lower down in the dependency tree.
> 
> I am not sure about this. At the very least, sope-core does use iconv
> in its NGExtensions (e.g. NSString+Encoding.m). Can we really assume
> some lower dependency package already pulls iconv in?

If something in a port links to libiconv (or anything else), then
the dependency should be registered in that port




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