Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/ncurses
To: Matthias Drochner <drochner@NetBSD.org>
From: grant beattie <grant@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 07/09/2004 14:09:07
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 01:51:20PM +0000, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> Module Name:	pkgsrc
> Committed By:	drochner
> Date:		Fri Jul  9 13:51:20 UTC 2004
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/devel/ncurses: Makefile
> 
> Log Message:
> depend on groff

Matthias,

why was this added? ncurses should not depend on groff, it builds
perfectly fine without it. if we need to add a distinction between
requiring nroff(1) and groff(1) then do that first.

aside from the fact it's not needed, this also introduces a dependency
on a c++ package very low down in the dependency tree on most platforms
which is a bad idea.

please make this optional and the default "no".

grant.