The following reply was made to PR pkg/29778; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg/29778: GLUT not really required for xmms
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:28:24 -0600

 On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:14:59AM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:10:00PM +0000, rkr@olib.org wrote:
 > > >Number:         29778
 > > >Category:       pkg
 > > >Synopsis:       GLUT not really required for xmms
 > ...
 > > (NB: I can't find any hint of GLUT in the files in ...pkgsrc/audio/xmms/*
 > > so I am not sure if this isn't due to something that XMMS depends upon
 > > somehow inducing a dependency.  But I understand that the goal is to
 > > remove transient dependencies like that, so even if that's how it is
 > > getting into the pkg database, it should be removed.)
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Since I don't readily see how the dependency is added, I can't recommend
 > > a solution.
 > 
 > It's coming from including Mesa/buildlink3.mk instead of MesaLib/buildlink3.mk.
 > I'll test if it works with including the latter instead too.
 
 Thanks.  There are a couple of others that seem to do this.
 
 
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