[CFR] Remove texinfo from base

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jun 25 16:25:54 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 09:09:30AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes sure UPDATING was anyway intended I'm not sure about the __FreeBSD_version.

regards,
Bapt
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