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Re: lib/40346: libexpat should be in base.tgz



On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:15:03AM +0000, Alan Barrett wrote:
 >  Yes, there really should be a way to have apache work on a server that
 >  does not have any X11 installation at all.  I hope that an apache binary
 >  package built without X11_TYPE=native will correctly depend on an expat
 >  package.
 >  
 >  However, if you install somebody else's binary packages that were built
 >  with X11_TYPE=native, then it seems pretty obvious and unsurprising
 >  that the packages won't work if you don't actually have a native X11
 >  environment.  Don't install other people's binary packages if you don't
 >  have a compatible system.

This logic is somewhat flawed, because (1) apache doesn't use X11 and
so the setting of X11_TYPE shouldn't be meaningful, and (2) you can't
set X11_TYPE to "none" anyway.

FWIW, I think if we're going to carry expat around anyway we may as
well have it in base.

-- 
David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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