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Date:      Sun, 4 Aug 2013 15:00:01 GMT
From:      cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/172837: lang/swi-pl compiles with databases/libiodbc
Message-ID:  <201308041500.r74F01cd074489@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR ports/172837; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To: Johan van Selst <johans@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: ports@freebsd.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/172837: lang/swi-pl compiles with databases/libiodbc
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 16:43:44 +0200

 On 08/03/13 11:29, Johan van Selst wrote:
 > Johan van Selst wrote:
 >> cpghost wrote:
 >>> I've discovered the reason for this:
 >> Ah, great. Now I can reproduce it as well. You are right, it is a hidden
 >> dependency (with no sensible way of turning it off). I shall add your
 >> patch with an explicit dependency on misc/ossp-uuid.
 > 
 > On second thought... the potential for wrong dependency issues with
 > conflicting ports, the lack of configuration options, the lack of shared
 > libraries (static only) and the realisation that most people have been
 > happy Prolog users without this feature so far, made me decide to rip it
 > out instead.
 > 
 > If anybody really wants to have ossp-uuid support in SWI Prolog, then
 > please let me know.
 
 No objections here. I've never used UUIDs in Prolog. ;-)
 
 > Cheers,
 > Johan
 
 Thanks,
 -cpghost.
 
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