In the last episode (Sep 02), Marcin Dalecki said: > What I hate somehow is the proliferation of "scripting plugin > interfaces" which are optional in the src bunch but are not opt-in > switches in the actual packages. One example can be vim sucking in > perl ruby python and what a not. Esp. annoying is the pyhon stuff > visible in libxml2 and libxslt - not usefull at all. One measure to > controll this is under FreeBSD to place the following inside > /etc/make.conf: [snip] > Howver I strongly think that the WITHOYUT_PYTHON and WITHOUT_RUBY > items at least should be the defaults.
Smart ports check to see whether the user has installed the optional package. See ports/audio/alsaplayer/Makefile, for example. You're welcome to submit PRs fixing the ports that hardcode unnecessary dependencies :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"