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Date:      Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:33:21 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, portmgr@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, nakai@FreeBSD.ORG, dr@domix.de, demon@FreeBSD.ORG, gnome@FreeBSD.ORG, mi@aldan.algebra.com, ijliao@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas@FreeBSD.ORG, roman@xpert.com, greg@hewgill.com, jedgar@FreeBSD.ORG, jmz@FreeBSD.ORG, samy@goldmoon.org, dirk@FreeBSD.ORG, kanou@mil.allnet.ne.jp
Subject:   Re: Introducing USE_BZIP2{CMD,LIB,RUN} and BZIP2BASE
Message-ID:  <20010807133321.D54952@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <867kwgjh5b.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>; from knu@iDaemons.org on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:31:12PM %2B0900
References:  <no.id> <200108071003.f77A3nF64150@vega.vega.com> <867kwgjh5b.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 07:31:12PM +0900, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
> At Tue, 7 Aug 2001 13:03:09 +0300 (EEST),
> sobomax wrote:
> > I do not see any problems with retiring bzip2 port in my variant -
> > when the time has came just remove archivers/bzip2 and its traces
> > in RUN/LIB/BUILD_DEPENDS of various ports. The former is common
> > for both scenarios, while you have to do the latter at the beginning
> > of your scenario anyway (i.e. convert RUN/LIB/BUILD_DEPENDS into
> > various USE_*).
> 
> 1. It's still uglier.  We don't need such kind of kludgy symlinks.
>    Introducing BZIP2BASE is cleaner and matches the reality.
> 
> 2. USE_BZIP2 implies EXTRACT_SUFX=.tar.bz2 and EXTRACT_CMD=bzip2 but
>    which are sometimes unwanted.  Introducing USE_BZIP2CMD will solve
>    this cleanly.

FWIW, I agree heartily with this point - there *is* software out there
that only needs libbz2.

> 3. It'd be better to be consistent with what we are doing for OpenSSL.
> 
> 4. You didn't object but agreed when we changed bsd.port.mk not to
>    depend on archivers/bzip2 if the system has /usr/bin/bzip2.

G'luck,
Peter

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