Removing the lang/python dependency

[William Grzybowski]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Marcus von Appen <mva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On, Mon Oct 07, 2013, Marcus von Appen wrote:
>
> [...]
>> I'm currently trying to remove lang/python from the implicitly set
>> BUILD_DEPENDS and RUN_DEPENDS in bsd.python.mk. This is required to
>>
>> a) properly detect ports using a wrong python version (e.g. using
>>    python, although they only support version X.Y)
>> b) make bin/python and friends a user choice (where possible)
>> c) avoid issues with pkg
>>
>> I'm testing each category and am fixing ports on the fly, when
>> everything breaks. The removal will happen in two runs.
>>
>> In the first run, python:${PORTSDIR}/lang/python will be added as build
>> or run dependency to the port, so we can remove the implicit dependency
>> from bsd.python.mk.
>
> Quick update:
>
> A list of 65 ports has been identified, which need to be fixed. I'm
> currently patching those and will send out mails to the maintainers as
> necessary. Once the ports are committed and an exp-run succeeds, the
> lang/python dependency will be removed from bsd.python.mk.

Thanks for the update, and nice work!
Let us know if you need any help patching those ports.



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William Grzybowski
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