Re: Why adding unconditional dependency on tradcpp? (Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/tightvnc)

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:46:21 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 11:17:58AM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> > On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 22:56:10 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> > <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 09:32:53PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> > >>On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 21:15:36 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> > <joerg%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Log Message:
> > >>>Always use tradcpp. Fix prototypes. Bump revision.
> > >>
> > >>You are doing such changes (Always use tradcpp) for not a little packages,
> > >>whereas I have ever no problem before.
> > >>
> > >>Then, why not do it as conditionally (for broken situation for you)?
> > >
> > >I strongly prefer to get consistent behavior. Given that this is imake
> > >we are talking about, any improvement on that front is worth the minimal
> > >price.
> >
> > "we"? you and who?
> >
> > I cannot find `imake' in x11/libX11, x11/libXext, x11/libXt,....?
>
> devel/imake. Note that I already killed using native imake for exactly
> the same reason.

And you must maintain tradcpp by yourself, because upstream developers
will not take care of missing features for a such local tool.

Good luck!

I dislike the situation, future update of packages may be blocked by it,
waiting for your fix (the worst case, broken silently).

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