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Re: USE_CMAKE in meta-pkgs/kde4/kde4.mk



brook%biology.nmsu.edu@localhost (Brook Milligan) writes:

> Greg Troxel writes:
>  > Are you sure that every package that depends on kde4 uses cmake?  I
>  > would think some don't, and thus CMAKE_ARGS is set to help those that
>  > do, but to permit non-cmake packages.
>
> Initially, I was just guessing from the contents (i.e., so many
> CMAKE_ARGS definitions) that anything using it would need cmake also.
>
> However, I just did some greps on the pkgsrc-2011Q2 tree and found
> that every file that includes kde4/kde4.mk either also defines
> USE_CMAKE or includes kde4/Makefile.kde4 which does.
>
> This suggests to me that the USE_CMAKE line should at least be
> factored into kde4.mk and removed from the package Makefiles.

If it's not KDE policy that every program that uses KDE has to use
cmake, this still seems excessive.  But if it's ?= and one could set
USE_CMAKE=no, then I don't object.

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