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



The following reply was made to PR lib/40346; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost, Quentin Garnier 
<cube%cubidou.net@localhost>,
        Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>, Alan Barrett 
<apb%cequrux.com@localhost>,
        Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>, 
lib-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: lib/40346: libexpat should be in base.tgz
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:54:03 +0200

 I just ran into another case of this. I am rebuilding all my packages
 for 5.0 now, and I wondered why p5-XML-Parser got built without
 libexpat. After some discussion on irc channel #netbsd, it turned out
 that it probably uses /usr/X11R7/lib/libexpat.so.
 
 Of course this is wrong.
 
 libexpat is not an X library, so it should not be in /usr/X11R7.
 
 I now have packages depending on it, which do not use X, yet if I decide
 to remove or replace X, are utterly broken.
 
 One could also argue that it is pkgsrc's fault for accepting that expat
 library as acceptable.
 
 -Olaf.
 -- 
 ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert    -- You author it, and I'll reader it.
 \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl      -- Cetero censeo "authored" delendum esse.
 


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