Re: non-blocking dependencies

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:28:45PM -0600, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 04:18:19PM -0600, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> > > Is there a way to mark a dependency as non-critical, and won't
> > stop
> > > the build if it doesn't exist?
> > 
> > No. The concept of "optional" dependencies is IMO obscure at best.
> 
> I just gave two concrete examples of their usefulness.
> 
> If I could guarantee dependencies' availability, that would be great,
> but I can't.  I can't get doxygen to build on my primary pkgsrc box,
> which is Solaris 9.  Anything that depends on doxygen is "broken" even
> though I'd probably only lose documentation.

One of the primary reasons pkgsrc has things like buildlink is to be
able to at least try to give consistent builds. "Optional" as in "don't
care" depencies are defeating that very core. So yes, figure out how to
fix doxygen. I'm not even sure I know what the problem is with that...

Joerg

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