From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 20 8:40:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFFEB37BBA9 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:40:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id IAA59970; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006201540.IAA59970@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Alexander Langer Subject: Re: ports/19398: fetchmail lacks a dependency Reply-To: Alexander Langer Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/19398; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Alexander Langer To: duffner@fh-konstanz.de Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/19398: fetchmail lacks a dependency Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:34:50 +0200 Also sprach duffner@fh-konstanz.de (duffner@fh-konstanz.de): > fetchmail (/usr/ports/mail/fetchmail) includes a utility create > a configuration set via a GUI. > This GUI is written in Python and requieres a tk_inter-module that > is not supplied with Python by default. > But it lives in the > /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-tkinter-1.5.2 > >Fix: > Insert the dependency in the Makefile. Absolutely not! It _must not_ be the case that a whole subset of unneeded crap (tcl, X, python) is needed for a simple _mail tool_. You can still install python manually if you really want it, though this is a, err, Warmduscher-Tool (english word not known), since the fetchmail manpage is very detailed. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message