The following reply was made to PR ports/116484; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Doug Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ports/116484: [PATCH] OPTIONS'ify x11/kdelibs3
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:21:23 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> The CUPS support switch is intentionally not exposed via options,
> because KDE is very clearly intended to be used with it. The support for
> alternative printing systems offers less functionality and considerably
> worse usability. Experts who can deal with this are offered both a
> cups-less binary package, an alternative and a convenient (non-OPTIONS)
> switch in the mainport to set up their systems with.
Okey dokey.
> The libthai dependency will not be made optional, since it is not a
> localization feature - it is required by khtml's text rendering engine.
Well that's just silly of them. Is it possible to make it optional there?
> The fact that it can be disabled at configure stage at all is just
> remnant of the time when that code was being tested prior to inclusion
> into the main distribution.
Ok, thanks for the clarification. Still be nice to avoid what for most of
us is useless bloat ...
> The kdelibs3 Makefile does not contain an explicit dependency on
> kerberos. The configure check should simply fail to detect kerberos and
> then configure kdelibs to disable support for it. Does the configure
> script fail for your if no kerberos is installed on the system?
The configure script does not fail, the build fails. I agree that it is a
condition that should be detected automatically, but it definitely isn't.
Doug
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