[KDE/Mac] Binary distribution license check

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Hi John,

On 13 Apr 2014, at 17:00 , John Layt <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:
> Looking at the openSUSE packages, their libiodbc doesn't need gtk2, but they do have a iodbc-admin package that does.  There's probably a few cases like this where trying to install a KDE accidentally pulls in a lot of Gtk/Gnome stuff that is not really needed by KDE itself.

oh, I see. That’s indeed interesting!

Yep, stuff like this seems to happen not only for MacPorts packagers. :-)

Looks like it makes sense to inspect what OpenSUSE distributes in those two packages and then simply modify libiodbc on MacPorts accordingly, i.e. split off a libiodbc-admin subport, perhaps.

Greets,
Marko