Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:11:48 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/137367: net/libproxy: add menu option to configure dependence on Python Message-ID: <e71790db0908091411n1a676e4cjd58248fbcbea1631@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1249840528.70279.63.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <200908082111.n78LBteY066459@freefall.freebsd.org> <e71790db0908090922y14381883j22e61ea5b9b7561c@mail.gmail.com> <1249840528.70279.63.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke<marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 13:22 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM, <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > Synopsis: net/libproxy: add menu option to configure dependence on Python >> > >> > State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended >> > State-Changed-By: marcus >> > State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 8 21:11:22 UTC 2009 >> > State-Changed-Why: >> > If Python support is to be made optional, I'd rather it be broken out into >> > a separate port like libproxy-mozjs. >> > >> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137367 >> >> Making it a separate port would ruin the very purpose of the patch, >> which is to make it possible to build a light desktop environment, >> based on Xfce. I'm attempting to reduce the number of dependencies, >> mainly Python. Please refer to the followup to ports/137368. > > You misunderstand. I don't want someone to build libproxy without > Python support, then have that break a dependency down the road. If > Python is to be made optional, I'd rather it be removed from libproxy > altogether, and put into a libproxy-python port. That may, people that > need Python support can simply build that submodule. This is akin to > how libproxy-mozjs works. Ok, now I got it. I will work on a libproxy-python port and submit a followup. BTW, I'm trying to figure-out what ports *really* depend on Python, but this is a bit difficult. The main problem is that some very basic ports depend on it (e.g. libX11, due to the dependence on x11/libxcb).
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