[kde-freebsd] broken build -- kde3

[Chuck Robey]

OK, this set of notes is mostly because I can't find a paper notepad, 
but also because it's probably going to need action by someone dealing 
with the KDE3 ports.  I am going to describe what I was trying to do, 
and what I found in trying to fix it.

I was using portmanager to build things, and the stuff I found most 
often is that, in ports with a largish set of sections that can be 
optioned in, one or more of those options would be broken ... so I would 
see the errors at the termination of the portmanager run, find the port 
that seemed to have foundered on an optional dependency, figure which 
option was giving the kiss of death, and option it out.  Too trivial, I 
thought, to bother you folks with.  The last one I hit was when it 
refused x11/kde3 because it couldn't  build kdemultimedia-3.5.8, which 
couldn't build akode-plugins-polypaudio-2.0.1_1,1 which couldn't build 
polypaudio-0.7_4.  Finally, in polypaudio-0.7_4, it actually had a real 
problem, it couldn't find file polyplib-simple.h.

First off, I located that file using a little script of mine that scans 
the pkg-plists for gold, and that was in polypaudio/, but that port 
failed to install (not ONLY, but mainly) cause of a collision in trying 
to add a new groupname to /etc/group ... but the name of the group that 
was already squatting there was pulse-rt.  A bit more investigation 
showed me that the polypaudio port is deprecated in favor of that new 
pulseaudio port.

OK, the natural thing now was to see if that pulseaudio port supplied 
the include file I was hunting (are you still awake at the end of all 
this??) ... well, it wasn't.  There was another file in the pulseaudio 
port that had an ending of "-simple.h" but the innards were too 
different to serve as a replacement.

OK, I just did a Google on it, and I don't see any traces of a 
pre-existing akode-plugins-pulseaudio port.  That would have been my 
preferred way to go, to change dependencies to need this.  Crap.  OK, 
then I will need to do some surgery to eliminate 
akode-plugins-polypaudio as a dependency.

Well, this is too damn complicated for a PR, and unless someone with 
more time with me can actually write that plugin, then I don't even see 
a better fix.  Maybe whoever reads this is measureably smarter than I 
am.   Good luck to you, whomever you are.

PS.  I hzve lots of disk, and I will keep the builds around for a bit, 
if you wanted to give it a looksee.  Any committers, or folks who can 
show me as least 3 non-trivial ports they did, just send me a ssh line 
if you wanted a login.