Re: Suggestion: add security/cy2-plain as a dependency of mail/postfix sasl option

[manphiz <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 12:44 PM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
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> manphiz <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
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> > Thanks for the explanation Greg.  Your new addition to cyrus-sasl's
> > DESCR is the next best thing to have, though I'd still like to see
> > that metapackage to be implemented :)  I'll try to contribute a patch
> > once I become more familiar with pkgsrc.
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> A metapackage might ok, but I think it will be difficult to include the
> ones everyone wants and not include the ones that people think are
> bloat.  However, we have some metapackages that are explicity for
> testing, as in "build everything that depends on foo, for some
> known-troublesome package foo". Plus, I suspect some plugins have their
> own dependencies, so the footprint of a metapackage that includes all fo
> them might be large.  But if you want to play with that in your own
> checkout and understand the consequences as a way to learn pkgsrc, you
> should feel free.  A metapackage is pretty easy as there are examples to
> steal from.  It's basically just a list of other packages, but it's more
> complicated than that.
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> You are welcome to as for access to pkgsrc-wip and create a metapackage
> there.
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>   http://pkgsrc.org/wip/

Thanks for the pointer Greg!  Will check out pkgsrc-wip.