[Bug 291447] ports-mgmt/synth: "www/apache24: has more dependencies than the port requires"

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291447

--- Comment #7 from John Marino <freebsd@marino.st> ---
Well, the main thing I wanted to impart is that it is a logical flaw to test
the existence of a file that a dependency has to install in the makefile.

You have to assume that NO PACKAGES are installed.
Or in other words, the evaluation of LIB_DEPENDS changes depending on what is
installed in the system.  That's a logical error.  The value of LIB_DEPENDS
should be the same in all cases.

The simplest fix would be to have APR-1 build against GDBM unconditionally. 
Why is this an option?  It's the default.

If APR-1 was adjusted to ALWAYS build against gdbm, then apache24 could also
unconditionally add it.

Otherwise, there ARE ways to read saved option files (grep , awk) but obviously
that's not the cleanest.  But at least it would be correct.

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