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Date:      Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:44:51 +0400
From:      Sergey Skvortsov <skv@protey.ru>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru>
Subject:   Re: ports/devel/glib20 and USE_PERL5
Message-ID:  <4305E253.60202@protey.ru>
In-Reply-To: <1124456933.33954.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <20050819130129.GA498@grosbein.pp.ru> <1124456933.33954.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
>>Why glib2 depends on perl5 and why all packages depending on glib2
>>inherit runtime dependency on Perl?
> 
> Because glib20 installs Perl scripts, and just about every dependency of
> glib20 uses Perl in some way (e.g. ports that use intltool).

This scripts can be extracted into separate port glib20-scripts to avoid
heivy-weight dependencies for ports which use glib-20.so only (or just
compiled with WITHOUT_NLS, or intented to run on nanobsd).

In this case USE_PERL5 will be replaced with USE_PERL5_BUILD.

-- 
Sergey Skvortsov
mailto: skv@protey.ru



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