ports/175935: x11-clocks/xclock links to iconv

John Hein jhein at symmetricom.com
Thu Feb 7 20:50:01 UTC 2013


The following reply was made to PR ports/175935; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: John Hein <jhein at symmetricom.com>
To: Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>
Cc: bug-followup <bug-followup at freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ports/175935: x11-clocks/xclock links to iconv
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 13:46:38 -0700

 Eitan Adler wrote at 14:38 -0500 on Feb  7, 2013:
  > The correct fix is to explicitly disable iconv, explicitly enable it,
  > or make it an OPTION.
 
 Fair enough.  OPTION it (default off - who uses iconv with xclock?).
 More work for the maintainer, but that seems like the best choice
 given our current tools.
 
 It'd be nice if we could have dynamic dependencies (dynamic at port
 build time, that is) for cases like this where the user couldn't
 really care either way about the feature, but removing a dependency
 breaks it.


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