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Re: pkg/29227
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Curt Sampson wrote:
> I just think it's a very bad situation when the OS has iconv, ruby has
> iconv, a "./configure && make" with an unmodified untar of the source
> installs iconv, and yet our package system doesn't.
pkgsrc tries Hard to have similar results cross-platform. If some platforms
need the extra dependency, and pkgsrc provides it in a granular form, then
it's granular for all systems (even if iconv is in "the base system"). That
keeps the packages quite consistent.
www/php4 and the php4-* modules (which are actually part of the php4
package's source) show another example of how this works.
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