[CFR] Remove texinfo from base

[Warner Losh]

On Jun 25, 2014, at 8:47 AM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:20:41AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 25, 2014, at 4:00 AM, Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:52:10PM +0200 I heard the voice of
>>> Baptiste Daroussin, and lo! it spake thus:
>>>> 
>>>> I have just committed the support for this in ports, anyway breakage
>>>> should be reported, right now it seems fine on my exp-run
>>> 
>>> Oh, yes.  Sorry, I did phrase that poorly.  This shouldn't _break_
>>> anything, but I suspect it will uncover existing-but-hidden breakage.
>>> 
>>> Which is good.  But does merit awareness that "hey, this will probably
>>> happen somewhere, so know this is a place to look when a build
>>> breaks".
>> 
>> I know it will break certain nanobsd configurations that build ports because
>> dependencies there (at least for the ones I’ve done) aren’t well handled. So
>> I agree that this patch is missing, at the very least, an UPDATING entry and
>> a __FreeBSD_version bump.
> 
> If you build a port that needs texinfo the port framework will do what it needs

Except in environments that don’t do dependencies quite right, or where only a subset
of ports tree has been imported and texinfo isn’t part of that…  But people with them
usually know, which is why UPDATING is needed. That’s all. There’s nothing else for you
to do.

Warner
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