Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/apache
To: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 02/04/2002 23:00:58
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:37:58AM -0500, James Chacon wrote:
> I really think is kinda lame to do to folks...What if someone installs apache
> and is working on something that's not in pkgsrc? They should now have
> scripts which don't install the proper dependencies to work?
I actually agree with you here. It's only historic that the apache package
doesn't depend on perl. Well, actually it's a little more than historic
since in the past, developers complained about depending on perl because
it's a large package that they don't use. I don't have any problem with it
since so many other packages use perl that I almost always have it installed
anyway. It's partly becase of this problem with always needing a
BUILD_DEPENDency on perl when using apxs that I made apache/buildlink.mk in
the first place. I certainly don't mind having it be a full dependency.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@jgrind.org>