Disabling dependency on esound in ports builds

[Mark Linimon]

On Fri, 20 May 2005, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> I really don't know what to suggest, or where such a discussion might
> lead if we were to pursue it again, but it certainly does seem that
> there's ample opportunity for some major cleaning up in the area of port
> dependencies.  The current approach just seems rather heavy-handed, if
> you ask me.  There should be some facility for a more fine-tuned
> approach, leaning more in the direction of "when in doubt, leave it
> out", rather than the current "throw it in just to be sure" methodology.

All it requires is the mythical Someone who has lots of time to run
regression tests on a cleaned-up ports tree.  I recommend Joe Marcus'
tinderbox scripts as an appropriate building block.

mcl