svn commit: r302578 - head/security/gnutls

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 20 07:31:36 UTC 2012


On 08/19/2012 19:03, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> 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.

I didn't mean the dependency on gnutls (eww), I meant the dependency on
pkgconf.


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    something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
    I can do.
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