svn commit: r302327 - head/games/glightoff

[Jason Helfman]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 11:51:25PM -0700, Doug Barton thus spake:
>On 08/08/2012 11:46 PM, Jason Helfman wrote:
>
>> USE_GNOME=      glib20 gtk20 intltool
>>
>> already bring in pkgconf, and these require it to build.
>
>I get that. So let's assume that all of those are installed, and up to
>date, but pkgconf is not on the system. What happens when the user tries
>to build glightoff?
>
>Or put another way, if pkgconf is necessary for this port, what harm
>will adding a build dep for it cause?
>
>> Also so this from bapt:
>>
>> More than that lots of ports do not even care about pkg-config because
>> they do
>> depend on glib20 or xproto which run depend on it. so fixing/changing
>> USE_GNOME=
>> pkgconfig cannot be done in one shot, too much impact.
>
>To the extent that I understand that, he was not saying "don't fix ports
>that need a pkgconf build dep" he was saying that because glib20 and
>xproto have (bogus) run deps on pkgconf _now_ they mask the true number
>of ports that need the build dep.
>
>When the bogus run dep is gone we want all of the ports that need a
>build dep to have it.
>
>Doug
>

I have opened up a dialog with the maintainer of this software, but it seems
as though at this point in my discussion with him that is it neither a build
or run dependency of the software.

-jgh

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