[kde-freebsd] How to remove erroneous deps from pkgng

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:56 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> KDE folks .... Jason's suggestion (by private e-mail for some reason)
> was that we add pkgconfig to USE_GNOME= for every port that depends on
> kdelibs that doesn't already have it; since almost, if not actually all
> of them are currently relying on the run-dep side effect. I can't see
> any reason NOT to do this, but if you have an objection please speak up
> sooner rather than later.
>
> On 07/21/2012 21:33, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>> On 07/21/2012 13:48, Jason E. Hale wrote:
>>>
>>>> IMO I don't really see what the hurry is.  This has been the behavior for
>>>> years.
>>>
>>> Yes, and some of us have been annoyed by it for years as well. :)
>>>
>>> The current behavior is wrong, and becomes increasingly painful in a
>>> world where most FreeBSD users are using packages because it drags in a
>>> totally pointless package to essentially every FreeBSD system. Fixing
>>> this bug is a good thing, and needs to be done sooner rather than later.
>> <snip>
>>
>> It is unnecessary to be in hurry when that pkg-config has been in the
>> bsd.gnome.mk for about nine years.
>
> The sooner we start fixing it, the better off we are.
>
>> I already have a better solution
>> available for weeks. Therefore, you (and others) need to be patient
>> because when I add the :build/:run dependency in the bsd.gnome.mk then
>> that pkg-config runtime dependency will be re-added.
>
> Um, yeah ... don't do that.

You need to start to respect the people's work and plan, Doug. Also I
am part of team that maintaining the bsd.gnome.mk. Yes it will be
re-add if anyone plan to remove it, because I already have planned add
the :build/:run feature in the bsd.gnome.mk that the without :* will
be both build/run time dependency. It is impossible for me to not
re-add it. It is not going to be long because I already have function
:build/:run in the bsd.mate.mk (was repocopied from bsd.gnome.mk)
available.

The only thing that I don't plan is to chase thousands of port to have
the 'pkgconfig;build'. If anyone want to take up this task is cool
with me.

> I mis-attributed your patch to Jason previously, sorry about that. But
> before it goes in your patch should have the logic I spoke about in my
> previous posts, to make sure that the USE_GNOME bits cannot get added as
> the wrong kinds of deps.
>
>> And no I am not
>> going to work on chase all ports to have the 'pkgconfig:build'
>> (sorry).
>
> Not asking you to. I'm asking you to fix your patch so that things that
> should only be one kind of dep or the other (like pkgconfig, but not
> necessarily limited to it) are handled properly by default if the right
> :label is not attached, and error out if the wrong one is. That way the
> work that's being done now to fix ports that need explicit build deps
> for pkg-config will solve this part of the problem for you.
>
> As you pointed out, the current situation has existed for a long time
> already. If we have to wait another week or 2 for the pkg-config run dep
> problem to be fixed properly before your patch gets committed, that's
> not really a problem.
>
> Doug
>
> --
>
>     Change is hard.
>
>
>



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