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Re: Removing built-in support for sqlite3
On Sat, Jul 20, 2024 at 08:27:26AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> NetBSD comes with sqlite3 in the base system. It mostly imported for
> supporting a heimdal feature (since disabled) and for apropos(1).
>
> The version is not kept up-to-date (NetBSD 10 comes with 3.26, pkgsrc
> has 3.45). Some software in pkgsrc requires features that are not
> enabled in the base system version.
>
> I'd like to remove builtin support for sqlite3 from pkgsrc (basically,
> cvs rm databases/sqlite3/builtin.mk).
Is there any reason to do that vs. just setting BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS
so the version in question isn't used?
Provided we actually manage to concoct a fix for PR 57517, doing it
that way will automatically switch to pkgsrc heimdal when needed,
whereas if you remove it entirely that heimdal becomes a problem.
--
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
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