Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/x11/modular-xorg-server

[david.sainty%dtsp.co.nz@localhost]

Joerg Sonnenberger writes:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 06:06:13AM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:03:30 +1300
> > Dave Sainty <David.Sainty%dtsp.co.nz@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > > May be pedantry [:)], but shouldn't the package explicitly pull in the 
> > > printing extension dependencies now that it assumes they are there?
> > 
> > I have to agree here, that's why I didn't commit... I thought we
> > were still discusing how to fix this :-)
> 
> Me too. I am not aware of anyone really using the print server, so I
> would have just disabled it explicitly.

Just another take on this...  If we assume no-one is using it we're
assuming how people are using Pkgsrc.  If we disable it and don't
provide an alternative, that seems like it could be a hardship to some
user - whereas keeping it in is unlikely to seriously inconvenience
anyone.

Of course, a separate package for it or a package option on the
existing server would be best of all.  But assuming the usual rules of
the freeze, just updating the PLIST (AND the package dependencies :)
seems reasonable.