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Obsolete +BUILD_INFO keys



Does anyone legitimately use the following fields in +BUILD_INFO?

  BUILD_HOST
  CC_VERSION
  GMAKE
  PERL

While looking at cleaning up the PROVIDES/REQUIRES handling I noticed these that have been there since around 1998 and I don't think they provide any useful information, nor see why they are special (i.e. if we're logging these then why not hundreds of other tools?)

If nothing else they're wasting a bunch of execs for every package, and making an already very complicated target even more so, and so I'd like to remove them.

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Jonathan Perkin                    pkgsrc.smartos.org
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