ports/120199: audio/mp3splt: make dependency on ogg vorbis optional

[Oleg Pudeyev]

The following reply was made to PR ports/120199; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Oleg Pudeyev" <oleg.pudeyev at gmail.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/120199: audio/mp3splt: make dependency on ogg vorbis optional
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:33:24 -0500

 I don't have a single ogg file on any of my computers. Yet I have, as
 do you, both libogg and libvorbis installed. I use mp3splt to trim
 crossfading from mp3 files I obtain with streamripper, and I don't see
 ogg/vorbis getting popular for streaming radio any time soon. My
 laptop however is rather low on memory, and loading unnecessary
 libraries contributes to slow performance. Clearly one library in one
 application won't make a big splash, but systematically making
 optional dependencies truly optional will have a substantial impact.
 Consider redhat vs debian -- the fact that deb provides for optional
 dependencies tends to make debian-based installations noticeably
 smaller.
 
 Oleg