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Re: Apache should never be a mandatory dependency



> > My suggestion to a general solution to this problem is to introduce
> > some kind of "global option", like this:
> > 
> > PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS= apache
> 
> Sounds like it could get more complicated with special cases.  I think
> that if someone is building roundcube or something like that then they
> probably already have a web server where they need it.  Unless it
> requires a specific version why include the dependency at all?  And if
> it does require a specific version, it would probably requires a
> specific web server anyway.
> 
> If a package generated CSV files, would we include a dependency on
> LibreOffice?

That's exactly what I am talking about.

Leaving out the dependencies to any kind of web-server completely would
be fine with me, because, yes, I do have webservers running on all
hosts on which I need them. I usually do this prior to installing
software like drupal, roundcube or whatever. As you already said, this
will probably be the general case anyway.

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