[Bug 264783] graphics/mesa-dri pulls in the entire llvm package

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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 04:33:04 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=264783

--- Comment #5 from Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Charlie Li from comment #4)
> For mesa specifically, the part that requires LLVM specifically is the swrast
> driver, better known as LLVMpipe, a software graphics renderer.
And this is fine.  After all, just as you say, many other programs in and
outside the ports tree rely on other components of LLVM to build or run.

The problem is not that Mesa depends on LLVM, the problem that it depends on
the particular, hardcoded LLVM version rather than respecting LLVM_DEFAULT.

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