Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 06:23:20 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: RW via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd packages going the debian way! Message-ID: <20181013062320.74a41dc2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20181012221107.58e93643@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <c9c745f73af795583f1cdb568b68eef6@kathe.in> <20181012174553.ef4e8faf.freebsd@edvax.de> <20181012221107.58e93643@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:11:07 +0100, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:45:53 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:42:37 +0000, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > > > i have been tinkering around with mailing system options under > > > freebsd and have found most of the options are dependent on entire > > > unnecessary bloated external components. > > > eg.; > > > - fetchmail depends on python, why? > > > > I think because of the fetchmailconf X11 tool, that one > > actually requires Python - fetchmail itself doesn't. So > > in this case, you are much better _not_ using the package > > (where the default building options don't fit your needs > > or expectations), and go with "make configure", select > > only the stuff that you _actually_ want, and then run > > "make install". > > It's strange, the python dependency seems to be unconditional when I > would have expected it to be conditional on the X11 option (which is off > by default). This may be a mistake. If it really is, I suspect a typical case of the "documentation does not match reality" Linuxism, as well as "let's just include everything" Linuxism. ;-) > > > - nmh depends on curl and libhttp, why? > > > > Seems to be something new. Older versions didn't need it. > > Seems to be for OAUTH authentication, currently just for sending though > gmail by the look of it. Maybe because "Google Mail is now the standard" it was decided to include it by default. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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