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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 2004 17:09:10 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/gpgme Makefile pkg-plist ports/security/gpgme/files patch-configure patch-gpgme-engine-gpgsm.c
Message-ID:  <41BCEBB6.6020406@DougBarton.net>
In-Reply-To: <200412121711.31008.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
References:  <200412111328.iBBDS6Eq056365@repoman.freebsd.org> <1102790363.50655.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <200412112007.28045.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> <200412121711.31008.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>

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Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Saturday, 11. December 2004 20:07, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 
>>On Saturday, 11. December 2004 19:39, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>
>>>Why enable pth support?  FreeBSD shouldn't require this, and it just
>>>adds another dependency?  I had specifically disabled it for that
>>>reason.  What about making it optional?
>>
>>The pth support doesn't use pth instead of FreeBSD's native pthread libs,
>>it produces an additional library that applications/developers might want
>>to use for portability reasons. Making it optional isn't worth it IMO since
>>pth is a small package anyway (<200kb) and the option would need to default
>>to on in order to make the gpgme-package feature-complete.
> 
> 
> Update: I've talked to Marcus Brinkmann of gpgme and he tells me the pth 
> support is, to his knowledge, only used internally g10, so it should be safe 
> to turn it off at least for now. I'll make it an OPTION with default to off.
> 

This is an excellent resolution to this issue. Thanks for doing the extra
detective work.

Doug

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