Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:10:18 GMT From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/67970: ports textproc/libxml, textproc/libxslt: bogus dependencies on devel/pkgconfig Message-ID: <200406161110.i5GBAIMJ023592@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/67970; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com> To: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/67970: ports textproc/libxml, textproc/libxslt: bogus dependencies on devel/pkgconfig Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:05:20 +0200 Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > Btw libxml just one case of many we already have. Do you realize this? A quick survey showed that - should you really insist that libraries should depend on build tools - you are actually missing a lot of them, the most prominent being security/openssl, other are devel/valgrind, devel/pcsc-lite, print/freetype2, graphics/png, www/neon, www/openvrml, x11/XFree86-4-libraries, x11-toolkits/qt33 and many more. Similarly security/clamav-devel now run-depends on pkgconfig, although I'm not aware of a single application using pkgconfig to link with libclamav (www/mod_clamav links with libclamav, but does so without using pkfconfig, and works fine without it being present at run time). You are right, I guess a lot of ports need to be fixed. -Oliver
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