svn commit: r465027 - head/databases/rrdtool

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Thu Mar 22 03:54:41 UTC 2018


On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 08:14:38PM +0000, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> New Revision: 465027
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/465027
> 
> Log:
>   databases/rrdtool: Make groff a conditional dependency
>   
>   groff is required by rrdtool to format documentation, which
>   is only required when documentation is being built.
>   
>   Accordingly, make groff conditional on the existing DOCS option.
>   
>   This precludes building a litany of dependencies, mostly due
>   to groff requiring ghostscript.

Thanks.  Typically I'd try to avoid building any USES+=groff port
unless there is an easy way to disable it.  It might not be an issue
for binary package users, but for those who build from ports it is.
I appreciate efforts to push it down (or even better, fix groff! :-)

./danfe


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