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Date:      Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:11:48 -0300
From:      "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/137367: net/libproxy: add menu option to configure  dependence on Python
Message-ID:  <e71790db0908091411n1a676e4cjd58248fbcbea1631@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1249840528.70279.63.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
References:  <200908082111.n78LBteY066459@freefall.freebsd.org> <e71790db0908090922y14381883j22e61ea5b9b7561c@mail.gmail.com> <1249840528.70279.63.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke<marcus@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 13:22 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 6:11 PM, <marcus@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > Synopsis: net/libproxy: add menu option to configure dependence on Python
>> >
>> > State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
>> > State-Changed-By: marcus
>> > State-Changed-When: Sat Aug 8 21:11:22 UTC 2009
>> > State-Changed-Why:
>> > If Python support is to be made optional, I'd rather it be broken out into
>> > a separate port like libproxy-mozjs.
>> >
>> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137367
>>
>> Making it a separate port would ruin the very purpose of the patch,
>> which is  to make it possible to build a light desktop environment,
>> based on Xfce. I'm attempting to reduce the number of dependencies,
>> mainly Python. Please refer to the followup to ports/137368.
>
> You misunderstand.  I don't want someone to build libproxy without
> Python support, then have that break a dependency down the road.  If
> Python is to be made optional, I'd rather it be removed from libproxy
> altogether, and put into a libproxy-python port.  That may, people that
> need Python support can simply build that submodule.  This is akin to
> how libproxy-mozjs works.

Ok, now I got it. I will work on a libproxy-python port and submit a followup.

BTW, I'm trying to figure-out what ports *really* depend on Python,
but this is a bit difficult. The main problem is that some very basic
ports depend on it (e.g. libX11, due to the dependence on x11/libxcb).



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