maya%netbsd.org@localhost writes: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:03:38PM +0200, Adam wrote: >> just switch to BUILD_DEPENDS and amend later. > > I think that's a risky idea that will cause fallout that will take too > long to find. we regularly get missing python dependencies because > someone has the python package installed already, and it's only visible > when running the package. > > someone building from source will have setuptools already, which will > make things even harder to notice. > > Please only do this if you can have a way to search for those packages > programatically. Having seen Joerg's comments and this, I'm now in the camp of thinking the proposed change has a bigger expected value of trouble compared to the benefit.
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