ports/78774: Update net/libdnet 1.9 -> 1.10
Jonatan B
onatan at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 14:50:09 UTC 2005
The following reply was made to PR ports/78774; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jonatan B <onatan at gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org,
Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock at gmx.net>
Cc: Sergey Matveychuk <sem at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/78774: Update net/libdnet 1.9 -> 1.10
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:47:25 +0200
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:41:08 +0100, Michael Nottebrock
<michaelnottebrock at gmx.net> wrote:
> This kind of smartness is not a good idea in general, because it does not
> translate to binary packages. It's especially unsuitable for
> language-bindings - if at some point another port needs libdnet's
> python-bindings, it will have no way of depending on them. Consider creating
> a slave-port for the python-bindings instead.
Are you sure? IMO it seems hardly justified, because it will create
too many flavour-ports. Will changing it to rely only on WITH_PYTHON
(or WITHOUT_.., I don't care) be enough?
If you feel strongly about it, though, then I have no problem with
splitting this port.
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