Smokeping failure

[Darin]

On 5/14/2012 1:11 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Jason Hellenthal<jhellenthal at dataix.net>  top-posted:
>
>
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:32:16AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>> Darin<derwood at naebunny.net>  writes:
>>>
>>>> It's apparently failing on the absence of FCGI or CGI::Fast.  Any idea
>>>> why this is happening all of a sudden?
>>> I don't use (or know anything about) smokeping,
>>> but I did notice the new entry in UPDATING
>>> saying that such configurations were preferred,
>>> and pointing to the documentation.
>
>> This has nothing to do with the webserver configuration.
>>
>> This is a build failure due to a missing depend.
> Well, you definitely need one of those missing CGI ports for the default
> configurations, so you can work around this by installing them. It looks
> like you *should* be able to configure it other ways, so I don't think
> putting them in the build requirements is a real fix.
>
Just wondering why FastCGI is needed all of a sudden.  I've used 
Smokeping for years and have never needed it before.. Just another bit 
of code that really doesn't add anything IMO.