On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:22:15 +0000 Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> mentioned:
> I also want to express my concern with recent (over last few years) > trend of simple adding necessary dependencies because "QAT complained", > while in many cases these deps are bogus (used only during brain-damaged > configure script is one common case). Not to pick on Baptiste, but I > encourage us to check more thoroughly why particular dependency is > required and reflecting the reason in commit log (except some simple > obvious cases). > +1. Also in these case we used to just add slave ports with dependency-specific parts only, so you can build the main part without installing the dependency (e.g. you don't need to have python to install lcms, there's another port for python specific parts; you don't need x11/bash to install djvulibre). Simply adding dependencies isn't a solution in many cases. I didn't looked into this particulat port, but this one looks like one that wants separation if it has py/perl modules in distfile. -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE
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