The following reply was made to PR pkg/36629; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36629: devel/python24 (maybe others) checks for readline
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:57:20 +0200

 On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 07:50:01AM +0000, blair.sadewitz@gmail.com wrote:
 > devel/python24's configure script checks for -lreadline.  IMO, we
 > should  include devel/readline/buildlink3.mk to satisfy this.  I use
 > GNU readline by default on NetBSD, so I don't know whether or not
 > NetBSD's implementation will suffice.
 
 I don't think that it is a good idea to do so. Python itself doesn't use
 readline, it is the builtin readline module packaged in
 devel/py-readline. If you can't give a better reason, I will close this
 PR.
 
 Joerg