At 20:01 Uhr +0200 21.10.2006, Havard Eidnes wrote:

[apache extensions default to apache2]

>A couple of questions:
>
>1) Do we aim at solving this problem, or is "build that package
>   from source, then" an acceptable answer?  (It would be nice if
>   we supported use of binary packages...)

I see the same problem with emacs-based packages that default to emacs.
@work, people use xemacs, so I run the bulk build with

USE_XEMACS =                    yes
EMACS_TYPE =                    xemacs214

only to find that half of the emacs-based packages do not build, or even
stall the build because elisp compiles with xemacs hang.

And yet another one: If you want firefox-bin as well as firefox on NetBSD,
you have to build one or the other manually, because the build looks at
MOZILLA_USE_LINUX and builds either the native or the linux package.

Like with cpp #ifdefs, there's a maintenance issue; and it's a pain to find
out why a bulk build does not have the packages you expect, and fix it.

	hauke

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