Re: cmake circular dependency

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

Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> I don't think the point is to use an older cmake version, for me the
> point is to have a cmake with fewer dependencies.
>
> So having a package with turned-off curl (I guess for auto-fetching)
> will already go a long way for that.

Perhaps a crazy thought, but what if we just make curl a default-off
option.  Auto-fetching is basically a bug anyway, in pkgsrc, or in other
contexts.

If somebody is using cmake out of pkgsrc context, and it tries to run
curl and fails, they can install curl, or they can turn the option on
and rebuild if they really want a dependency.  Probably people who are
doing this have curl anyway, for some other reason.  The actual trouble
imposed would be very small, fairly few people times the effort of
installing curl.

Would this approach resolve most of the trouble, for very little work
and complexity?