Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:41:53 GMT From: Vitaliy Romanyuk <vitar@gmx.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/95580: superfluous dependensies Message-ID: <200604101041.k3AAfrK3084417@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200604101050.k3AAoG1H090104@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 95580
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: superfluous dependensies
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 10 10:50:15 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Vitaliy Romanyuk
>Release: 5-STABLE
>Organization:
Freelance ;-)
>Environment:
not needed
>Description:
There are too many superfluous dependencies onto software pieces that isn't true part of system but a part of "generic install" instead. In my case it's Apache but I'm sure that it isn't complete list.
AFAIK Apache installs during every install type (std/custom etc) when user says "enable httpd" but really it doesn't carries any system-level functions like sshd or inetd -- just "web-server", no more. And it can be easily replaced by number of an alternates including ones that better for special cases (low-mem systems for example) -- like lighttpd or nginx.
But many ports (in my case it's PHP5) still refers to Apache modules-dir or Apache shared-dir or somewhat like that. And even tries to build Apache modules regardless of switches and parameters.
>How-To-Repeat:
#cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
#make -DWITHOUT_APACHE -EWITHOUT_APACHE -EWITH_APACHE=no {use as many variants as you like} install
#php -i
>Fix:
Review ports makefiles to avoid dependencies that really doesn't requred by original source
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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