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

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

On Wed, 03 Jul 2013 14:54:31 +0900, David Holland 
<dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 02:13:37PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
>  > And you must maintain tradcpp by yourself, because upstream developers
>  > will not take care of missing features for a such local tool.
>
> As opposed to, say, the upstream developers who don't care about
> missing features in clang, which doesn't provide a traditional cpp at
> all?

If using tradcpp conditionally, not affect to gcc users.
I said first `why not conditionally?'.
You can claim to upstream (or clang) developer about if using clang,
but for tradcpp, you will probably get the answer `why using such poor cpp?'.

> Anyhow, nobody upstream particularly maintains imake or anything that
> uses imake any more than they absolutely have to. If there's a
> problem, best to just rip it out entirely.

As already I said, "x11/libX11, x11/libXext, x11/libXt,...", I cannot find that
imake is used by them.

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