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: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:53:10 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 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?
> When it's turned off, khtml will still work, but it will not display
> Thai correctly.
My point is not so much that libthai is an overwhelming burden, but more
so that only a very small percentage of the user base will ever need it,
therefore I don't see the point in enabling it by default.
If it can be optional, I think it should be, FWIW.
> It's somewhat beside the point, but I am continually surprised about the
> fact that nobody has ever asked for image format support libraries to be
> made optional in the KDE ports instead - for a couple of them, the much
> more convincing argument of increased security by avoiding code with a
> bad security history could be made ...
Personally I think a lot of stuff should be optional in the KDE ports,
including these libraries, but since the kerberos issue actually breaks
the build for me I started with this one. :)
That said, given that KDE 4 is right around the corner, it would perhaps
be more useful to look at a new framework for it, including OPTIONS
wherever practical, especially in the metaport. I would be willing to
assist with this effort.
>>> 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.
> Interesting - can you supply a log of such a failed build, including
> config.log and the output of ls /var/db/pkg?
Yes, I can do that, at worst by the end of the weekend.
Doug
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