misc/165706: print/ghostscript9 forces dependency of dns/libidn which is really optional

[Hiroki Sato]

The following reply was made to PR ports/165706; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hiroki Sato <hrs at FreeBSD.org>
To: pg at 2lazy.ru
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, hrs at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/165706: print/ghostscript9 forces dependency of
 dns/libidn which is really optional
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:44:01 +0900 (JST)

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 Pavel Gubin <pg at 2lazy.ru> wrote
   in <4F54AB2F.40703 at 2lazy.ru>:
 
 pg> Hiroki Sato wrote:
 pg> > pg> While trying to update ghostscript9-9.05 to ghostscript9-9.05_2
 pg> > I pg> noticed that it wants to install dns/libidn, and found that
 pg> > libidn pg> dependency appeared in Makefile's CVS version 1.12 of
 pg> > 2012/02/29 pg> fixing inplicit dependency. pg> pg> But really gs
 pg> > may be configured --without-libidn, so this dep may be pg> made
 pg> > tunable.
 pg> >
 pg> > Why?
 pg>
 pg> Because it is optional, am I Wrong?
 pg> My system works well without libidn, and gs until ghostscript9-9.05_2
 pg> (or _1) also works, and I verified this patch. Also I set default for
 pg> libidn to "on", so this should not break anything, but will allow to
 pg> disable unnecessary dependence if one doesn'n need it.
 
  You just do not use the PDF password feature newly added.  I do not
  think it is unnecessary or should be optional unless it breaks other
  features.
 
 -- Hiroki
 
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