svn commit: r302578 - head/security/gnutls

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 20 02:03:18 UTC 2012


On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 02:59:10PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> FWIW the solution I used when changing my non-leaf ports was to delete
> pkgconf, then look at every port that depends on them and test if they
> passed 'make configure' without any changes. Since so many things depend
> on gnutls it may be safer to just add the dependency with a comment in
> the Makefile to maintainers to remove it if it turns out not to be
> necessary.

Since in ports we generally prefer OpenSSL vs. GnuTLS, making it hard-coded
dependency (when it can be optional) seems at least arguable.

./danfe



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