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On Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:11:50 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 04:57:35PM +0000, Walter Hurry wrote:
>> We had a recent issue with libiconv now being included in base, thus
>> rendering the port superfluous.
>> 
>> Does a similar situation exist with libexecinfo? I don't seem to need
>> the port on on 10.0-ALPHA1 r255587, and htop and ruby both build quite
>> happily without it. The library is /usr/lib/libexecinfo.so.1.
>> 
>> 
> libexecinfo in base is exactly the same as the on from ports, so it
> should be a change that doesn't require any manual operations.
> 
Ah, right. Thanks. Then I can safely do as I already have; i.e. remove 
the libexecinfo package and recompile those affected. This on the grounds 
that the fewer unnecessary ports the better, imho.