Re: sqlite3

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost> writes:

> There are a number of comments on why different options might be used
> but I don't see anything on why not to use a native version of it.

The base version is deficient by leaving out some options that depending
upstreams think of as normal, and I think that sqlite3 upstream thinks
are normal -- but sqlite3 upstream docs are a little puzzling in that
while it's very often a library, the docs feel like they are written as
if it's always custom-built as a .o included in some binary.

Even if there were a way to express which feature are needed, it would
result in pkgsrc builds linking to multiple versions, because of

pkg-A(lib):
  depends on sqlite3, base is ok

pkg-B:
  depends on sqlite3, base is not ok
  depends on pkg-A

Dealing with this is too hard, compared to the downside of building
sqlite3 in pkgsrc.